RE: Does the positive side of tribalism/racism outshine the negative side?
August 12, 2020 at 8:52 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2020 at 9:06 am by The Grand Nudger.)
ISH - While christianity is highly syncretic, the greeks were informed of their opinion in this regard by the state of the world around them - as many others have been all on their own, and as the proto-jewish storytellers could have easily surmised without help.
A god like that, explains a world like this, or so they thought.
We don't need to dip into myths about things that never happened, though, to comment on the hardening of hearts. I am personally incapable of salvation, for example, because the christian god - through his salvific plan, has hardened my heart to it. Completely, utterly, irrevocably. I cannot be saved because I cannot help but reject the means through which it's said to be achieved. f gods plan was to save me, and if god hardens hearts so that a soul might be saved - the manner in which god decided to bo about acheiving this annihilates the possibility of salvation. Tack prefers to contextualize this as a character defect by any other name, an excess of pride, for example. That's an attempt to negotiate over his own rationalization - that his good god does a bad thing because I do a bad thing - a rationalization which we chastise human children for.
Truth is, I simply can't string the other guy up, or accept literal blood money from the same. God can do any shitty thing he wants, but if this is the shitty thing that he wants to do, it's not going to work. That exceeds my own threshold for what moral evil i'm willing to accept for an instrumental good..which would matter, if i desired the instrumental good in the first place - which I don't.
A god like that, explains a world like this, or so they thought.
We don't need to dip into myths about things that never happened, though, to comment on the hardening of hearts. I am personally incapable of salvation, for example, because the christian god - through his salvific plan, has hardened my heart to it. Completely, utterly, irrevocably. I cannot be saved because I cannot help but reject the means through which it's said to be achieved. f gods plan was to save me, and if god hardens hearts so that a soul might be saved - the manner in which god decided to bo about acheiving this annihilates the possibility of salvation. Tack prefers to contextualize this as a character defect by any other name, an excess of pride, for example. That's an attempt to negotiate over his own rationalization - that his good god does a bad thing because I do a bad thing - a rationalization which we chastise human children for.
Truth is, I simply can't string the other guy up, or accept literal blood money from the same. God can do any shitty thing he wants, but if this is the shitty thing that he wants to do, it's not going to work. That exceeds my own threshold for what moral evil i'm willing to accept for an instrumental good..which would matter, if i desired the instrumental good in the first place - which I don't.
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