(June 26, 2017 at 4:57 pm)Lek Wrote: During WWII American soldiers were told to kill German soldiers. After WWII they were no longer told to kill German soldiers. No one changed their minds, but the situation changed. I previously mentioned that our view of eternity effects our view of situations. Your view of Job's story was that his reward was to get a whole of stuff back. I see his reward for following God as eternal life with him. How do you think our suffering, combined with our faithfulness to God, effects the entirety of our existence? I'm sure you think suffering just makes things worse because you don't believe in existence after the death of our earthly bodies. You may think you don't deserve any punishment, but look around you at the rest of us.
As far as Richard Dawkins is concerned, I'm not really that interested in what he thinks. Of course he thinks all theists are crazy; the same as non-believers thought of christians in the early church. It's not something that sits well with those who believe as he does. I think he's crazy, so that makes us even in that regard.
Situational ethics and the ends justifying the means comes to the aid of Christian apologetics once again. Then you want people to look to the bible for moral absolutes. Get the fuck outta here.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.