(November 10, 2015 at 12:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: No there are many other reasons:
1) Vanity: If God exists then you cannot set yourself up as your own god,
2) Lust & Greed: If God exists then you can justify your favorite immorality,
3) Relativism: If God doesn't exist then you can make up your own personal truth and no one can tell you you're wrong. The list goes on.
1) If you think God exists then you believe you are in the gang of the biggest Alpha Male tyrant in all of recorded history,
2) If you think God exists then you can justify your favorite immorality (like, say, teaching that women are not the equals of men, that it's okay to kill nonbelievers, adulteresses, blasphemers, heretics, backtalking children, homosexuals, and the tribes over the next hill who worship the "wrong" deities, or none),
3) If you think God exists no one can tell you you're wrong because you think you have The Truth™ from the Highest Authority™, even when the evidence is staring you in the face that you're wrong.
The list goes on.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
