(April 19, 2016 at 9:00 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:If he tried to substantially burden my life with laws and prohibitions, he'll be out on his ass in no time. This is 'Murrica, son. While wet pretend to be pious and Godly, we like our guns and porn and beer and freedom.(April 19, 2016 at 8:53 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Again, sing to your heart's content. I don't care if you want to tell me how to live. I'm a big boy with a big brain, I'll talk back.
It's when you try to enact laws that codify your beliefs that I get loud.
And what if a leader one day you see on TV says I am the representative of God, I am the chosen one of God, I am the successor of the last of the Prophets, I am this and that, and majority of the world support him, and want to form and rally around him. And majority of believe in him.
What would you do? Would you fight him? Or would you let him be? Would you just intellectually try to defeat him or would you fight him if most of the world believed in him?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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