RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:24 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2011 at 2:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 26, 2011 at 2:16 pm)salty Wrote: I see no problem with loving something "imaginary" especially if the pretend force is molding me into a more patient person, a person who seeks to know more about others, help them if possible and seeks to dedicate time and energy to building others up. What's wrong with that kind of lifestyle? Why are you showing so much anger for my "ignorant" thoughts? Have I ever been angry at your opposing ways?
That's all well and good. The very same also molds folks into the kind of people that fly planes into buildings. Or burn people alive. Or exterminate entire races of "savages". The problem with imaginary underpinnings of reality is that they are so malleable as to lead to just about anything. While you may feel compelled to do good by your faith, many do not, or redefine what is good. Your god and my atheism may both lead to wonderful things, the caveat is that atheism can never command me to genocide.
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