RE: Admitting You're a Sinner
January 18, 2018 at 8:51 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2018 at 9:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Factually, it is also true. There is nothing about humanity that makes us inherently or insurmountably "vile". Some people may be vile, and for some people their vile natures may be beyond their ability to change......but those people..are not all people..or even close to a tiny fraction of all people.
"God"..on the other hand, is sorely lacking in any "tenderness, understanding, and acceptance." If you want -any- of those things, you're going to have to go find them...in people...and if one could only find answers to "x" in god, then no answers will ever be forthcoming..because "god" aint fuckin talkin.
Comments such as those above are exactly what Hitchens was referring to when he made his "maximum of servility and solipsism" remark - and it;s comments such as the ones above that form the basis of anti-theist criticism of god beliefs, which hold regardless of the existence of a god or of a persons status of belief -in- the existence of a god.
Even a believer can express and demonstrate the validity of anti-theist sentiments...and you all commonly do...just, you know, about everyone else's fake gods.
"God"..on the other hand, is sorely lacking in any "tenderness, understanding, and acceptance." If you want -any- of those things, you're going to have to go find them...in people...and if one could only find answers to "x" in god, then no answers will ever be forthcoming..because "god" aint fuckin talkin.
Comments such as those above are exactly what Hitchens was referring to when he made his "maximum of servility and solipsism" remark - and it;s comments such as the ones above that form the basis of anti-theist criticism of god beliefs, which hold regardless of the existence of a god or of a persons status of belief -in- the existence of a god.
Even a believer can express and demonstrate the validity of anti-theist sentiments...and you all commonly do...just, you know, about everyone else's fake gods.
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