pop morality

[athrock]

Actually, my issue with the Christian god is that he's pathetically small and petty. Seriously, you're literally claiming that Yahweh, the alleged creator of hundreds of billions of galaxies with hundreds of billions of stars (around which presumably are numerous habitable planets) is so in agreement with the prejudices of one tribe of Bronze/Iron Age goatherders that he's deeply concerned with how the humans have sex with each other, and other similar nonsense... and wants to make sure some humans bother others about it.

Again, you could see this as clearly as you see it for Zeus and Shiva and Thor, if only you weren't conditioned otherwise.

Oh, yes...I could see the light as you have if only I weren't "conditioned".

Which doesn't exactly account for the conversions of scientists and philosophers who were raised as atheists and then became Christians as a result of their research into the facts and philosophical arguments. But you can't see THAT because of YOUR conditioning. 

But more importantly, no, Rocket, I'm claiming that the God of the Universe...who is every bit as big as your astronomical verbiage suggests and more, btw...really is concerned with us because HE MADE US AND LOVES US.

You have this completely backwards. It's not that God is "pathetically small and petty" because He is concerned for us. Instead, we who are pathetically small and petty are raised up from our lowly state by Him who is above all things. Amen!