(October 13, 2015 at 5:18 am)robvalue Wrote: I find myself saying this a lot lately: if God/Allah/Jesus/whoever has a problem with something, leave them to sort it out themselves. Every time you act on their behalf, you're contradicting your belief that they are actually real and have any power.
I wish I had a nickel for every time I've tried to point this out to Christians campaigning against gay marriage.
God doesn't need your help, guys, remember?
All you do is send the message that you don't have any faith in God's ability to deal with people by Himself.
Plus, there is something especially unsavoury about Theists
who not only feel the need to impose God's Law onto others via Civil Law,
but who claim that they do so because they're doing it for God
...when they are patently doing it for the sake of their own comfort level.
(especially Christians,
to whom Jesus never gave any instruction to make His teachings into Civil Law,
but took that upon themselves)
I imagine their God would be pretty pissed at followers doing stuff,
ostensibly in His name,
but when it's really to serve themselves.
It's akin to the moneychangers in the Temple.
Using God's name for their own interests.
(much in the way my sister claims to be on my mother's side,
but it is only to serve herself, incidentally).
