RE: Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 3, 2011 at 10:15 am
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2011 at 11:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't know why believers feel the need to threaten or intimidate. Does the threat of eternal damnation leave room for escalation? Whether they smile politely, or pound their holy books and scream at the top of their lungs.......you are still going to be punished, by their god, for eternity.
On a related note. The idea that any god, when all other angles have failed, would resort to preying upon the human desire to relieve themselves of suffering, or avoid physical pain, is the strongest motivation to refuse to acknowledge said gods sovereignty over man: even if said god did in fact exist.
In other words, if god did exist, and was a tyrant (as god is described to be by the worlds predominant monotheist traditions), man would be justified, and in fact committing an act of absolute heroism in rebelling against god.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – C. S. Lewis
Take that Lewis loving theists!
On a related note. The idea that any god, when all other angles have failed, would resort to preying upon the human desire to relieve themselves of suffering, or avoid physical pain, is the strongest motivation to refuse to acknowledge said gods sovereignty over man: even if said god did in fact exist.
In other words, if god did exist, and was a tyrant (as god is described to be by the worlds predominant monotheist traditions), man would be justified, and in fact committing an act of absolute heroism in rebelling against god.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – C. S. Lewis
Take that Lewis loving theists!
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