RE: The Ontological Argument - valid or debunked?
June 22, 2016 at 8:38 am
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2016 at 8:49 am by Veritas_Vincit.)
God isn't morally perfect, he is morally evil - he instructed people to enslave each other, to commit genocide (the Amalicites etc) to sacrifice their children (Abraham and Isaac, Jeptha and his daughter) and he himself wiped out most of the world's population. Not only that, he administers infinite punishment for finite crime which is by definition infinitely immoral. He is a monster!
The God of the Bible puts the Nazi party to shame, and the only reason most religious people don't see this is because it's a global paradigm that everyone believes, like when everyone believed the world was flat, when people thought the sun went round the earth, everyone believed it and it was considered heretical for people to break from the conventional viewpoint because it would mean standing up and saying that everyone else is wrong about what they think, and people don't like that. But there is a global awakening taking place because now we are at a stage in the development of our society and culture when people are far more able to think for themselves and break free from what the party line they've been inculcated with and indoctrinated with by their parents and their communities who themselves were wrong in what they believed to be true. Now we are at a point where religious oppression has been driven back in the western world we can step back and say "Hang on, I've been told that this God is true but how do I know?" without being burned at the stake. We can ask "How do the people who told me know? Is it true? Is there actually any good reason and evidence to believe it? What if it doesn't actually add up? What if the world is round, what if the Earth goes round the sun? And we can think for ourselves and discover the truth for ourselves by thinking for ourselves rather than just believing the lies that society has told us to keep us in line.
The God of the Bible puts the Nazi party to shame, and the only reason most religious people don't see this is because it's a global paradigm that everyone believes, like when everyone believed the world was flat, when people thought the sun went round the earth, everyone believed it and it was considered heretical for people to break from the conventional viewpoint because it would mean standing up and saying that everyone else is wrong about what they think, and people don't like that. But there is a global awakening taking place because now we are at a stage in the development of our society and culture when people are far more able to think for themselves and break free from what the party line they've been inculcated with and indoctrinated with by their parents and their communities who themselves were wrong in what they believed to be true. Now we are at a point where religious oppression has been driven back in the western world we can step back and say "Hang on, I've been told that this God is true but how do I know?" without being burned at the stake. We can ask "How do the people who told me know? Is it true? Is there actually any good reason and evidence to believe it? What if it doesn't actually add up? What if the world is round, what if the Earth goes round the sun? And we can think for ourselves and discover the truth for ourselves by thinking for ourselves rather than just believing the lies that society has told us to keep us in line.
