RE: Age of Deconversion
November 22, 2019 at 5:55 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2019 at 6:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Most christians see good and evil exactly as most non christians do. They excuse what they see, as you have, with "mysterious ways" or prevarication and pious prattle about justice and forgiveness.
We could ask all of those things of our own society, a tu qoque argument..but those only work when the first example is evil, to compare and declare the second example similarly or equally evil. The term literally means "you too", or, "you as well".
Is that how you feel? That god is, at least, no worse than we are? Well, that wouldn't be surprising, since every persons god is a reflection of their own psyche. This even applies to god-as-love. Love is not always good. Love can be jealous, cruel, and vindictive, murderous..even. In humans, at least. Knowing this, it's not surprising that a person can no longer believe in a god if that god does not conform to their own internal landscape. The question then becomes..does your god conform to yours? A being who would flood the earth? A killer of men, defiler of children, the one who executes the innocent in service to the guilty.
Well..no...no...that's not the god you believe in, is it, regardless of whether or not that's the god in your magic book. It seems that this much, like intuitions regarding good and evil, you have in common with atheists. It's not that god couldn't be that way..and still exist. It's not even that the god in the magic book isn;t that way. You simply reject such a god, in favor of the god you've constructed.
Do you think that might be a possibility?
We could ask all of those things of our own society, a tu qoque argument..but those only work when the first example is evil, to compare and declare the second example similarly or equally evil. The term literally means "you too", or, "you as well".
Is that how you feel? That god is, at least, no worse than we are? Well, that wouldn't be surprising, since every persons god is a reflection of their own psyche. This even applies to god-as-love. Love is not always good. Love can be jealous, cruel, and vindictive, murderous..even. In humans, at least. Knowing this, it's not surprising that a person can no longer believe in a god if that god does not conform to their own internal landscape. The question then becomes..does your god conform to yours? A being who would flood the earth? A killer of men, defiler of children, the one who executes the innocent in service to the guilty.
Well..no...no...that's not the god you believe in, is it, regardless of whether or not that's the god in your magic book. It seems that this much, like intuitions regarding good and evil, you have in common with atheists. It's not that god couldn't be that way..and still exist. It's not even that the god in the magic book isn;t that way. You simply reject such a god, in favor of the god you've constructed.
Do you think that might be a possibility?
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