RE: "I disagree with you, but i don't think you're Hitler"
February 25, 2011 at 2:29 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2011 at 2:30 pm by everythingafter.)
(February 25, 2011 at 11:22 am)Rwandrall Wrote: Just because some do horrible things in the name of an ideology, does not necessarily mean that the ideology is entirely flawed and evil.
Well, that argument can be made as well: God makes man. God knows man will sin in the garden before making him. God knows that he himself will cast a curse on his entire creation for sinning in the garden. God knows that Israel will be disobedient, obedient and then back again dozens of times and for many generations. God, for some reason, reconfigures his own plan for salvation of mankind, that of animal sacrifice to now include his own son as the sacrifice (or himself, or whatever ...). He knows that he will now require man, following Christ's death, to believe in his son and receive eternal life or refuse to believe and spend eternity in hell. He knew all of this before speaking anything into existence, yet, still threw us into a spiritual mouse trap by sheer force (kind of like Job) and without thinking that just maybe some of us would cringe at the thought of one man being tortured, executed and paying for the debts of an entire race. Jesus said some good things about helping the poor and weak among us, but we all know those things do not build the basic foundation of Christianity.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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