(November 16, 2015 at 2:43 pm)Drich Wrote:(November 16, 2015 at 2:32 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Then per se or not, the act is irrelevant. I'm labelled a "sinner" and dehumanised simply for not believing. So what's to stop me from adding to the charge? It's not as though the punishment is going to get more severe.
What makes you think being a 'sinner' makes you a 'de-human?'
It only makes you not God. to be human is to sin.
Because it's used in the same connotation as "gook", "commie", "insurgent" and the like. Giving the 'enemy' a label that removes their humanity makes them easier to visualise as targets. You only have to skim this board, or watch a few YT preachers, to see how this plays out in actuality.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
