(April 21, 2017 at 10:11 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(April 20, 2017 at 1:58 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Again, Professor Plumb, you are not making a logical argument; but rather, appealing to emotions of incredulity and moral outrage. You give no consideration to the idea that God may have had perfectly good reasons, however inexplicable to us, for what Job experienced.
All we have to judge the god character on is the bible and in the story of job he is written as being a tool.
I give no consideration as to what the motives of a fictional character may be other than those described in the text, it would be pointless to speculate.
Does snoopy like a nice bourbon?
Is Cartman from South Park fond of Justin Bieber?
No shit.
"Does the bill sitting on capital hill go to a strip joint after the cartoonists draw him?"
"Does the owl from the Tootsie Pop add get caught in a predator sting by Cris Hanson, after convincing the kid it only takes three licks to get to the center?"
That book is all drama, most of it needless drama through violence and self loathing and false martyrdom peppered with stories of kindness all used to glorify the hero. God is really Jerry Springer and humans are the stage act so he can end it with a moral story at the end, not real morality, but "look at me, I fixed the mess I allowed".
