(July 28, 2016 at 11:13 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote:(emphasis is mine)(July 28, 2016 at 10:17 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: (emphasis is mine)
Christianity purports a gawd that orders atrocities and/or stands by while atrocities are committed in it's name. My morality would not allow me to worship a gawd like that.
If the gawd of the buy-bull were the leader of a nation in the modern world, it would be a dictator to make Saddam look like a saint. Millions would die under it's "leadership," any nation within it's reach would be invaded and it's people brutally murdered and it would eventually be put down like a rabid dog.
On this I would like to point out that God had a very different vision for the world at it's creation. Specifically when he rested and said that it is good. It was not until after the fall of man that the world descended into what it has become. Most of what people object to in the bible stems from the events that have taken place since; whereabouts He has and is providing a path to our reconciliation to Him.
In other words, it's really all our fault.
Bullshit!
An omniscient, omnipotent gawd (as purported by the buy-bull) would have been able to see what would become of it's creation, enabling it to plan accordingly to avoid the atrocities. In plain words, your buy-bull puts forth the claim that gawd created us knowing that we would fall. Knowing that it would have to order, even commit atrocities and or/ stand by and watch them committed in it's name.
My morality is greater than that of buy-bull gawd in the simple fact that if I witnessed a rape/murder/etc... I would try to stop it. Buy-bull gawd never does.
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