(July 13, 2020 at 7:54 am)Gwaithmir Wrote:(July 12, 2020 at 8:03 am)Belacqua Wrote: The Pope doesn't believe in this kind of thing either. Nor did Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, or any other Christian with some knowledge of theology.
If that's what they taught you in your Christian schools, you were very right to stop believing it.
"Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry for ever and ever until the end of time. But he loves you! He loves you and he needs money!" (George Carlin)
I think the point Belaqua is making is that no Christian educated enough in their theology believes in a god that "lives or floats in the sky or space". And though Belaqua may be right, I think this misses the point anyway. Christians do cling to a notion of God that's "out there" lending them hope and being the ultimate exemplary of love and such. It's not like Christians are generally deists after all. God, to them, does care about the affairs of humankind and is heavily involved in them.
