(October 28, 2011 at 11:01 pm)lucent Wrote: I don't have a dismissive attitude towards life. I love life, and I love people.
I'm glad to hear that, and I really mean it. It goes back to what I said about presenting a different character online to their real-world persona.
(October 28, 2011 at 11:01 pm)lucent Wrote: I don't even hurt bugs I find in my house, I put them outside. Yes, I said plants and bacteria are extaneous to the question of Gods judgement upon the Earth. If that frightens you then I can only imagine that you still use a nightlight in your room.
No, that doesn't frighten me in and of itself. What does frighten me, though, are individuals - or groups - that hold their pet god to be supreme at the expense of the health and wellbeing of real living things here on Earth and then go on to do something about it. If you are not such a person, then fine. There are, and have been, and probably always will be, people who do fit that category. That should frighten any rational person.
(October 28, 2011 at 11:01 pm)lucent Wrote: What I am presenting is that I think God is a just judge, and that if He judges someone, it is because they are guilty. You obviously don't believe that, but I do, and we can chop that up to difference of opinion.
Indeed we could chalk it up as such, if not for the matter of their representing diametrically opposed positions. This means in practise that one or other of us must be wrong, unless there are other interpretations that render both of us wrong; in two out of those three options, you (or I) are wrong.
(October 28, 2011 at 11:01 pm)lucent Wrote: I don't approve of violence, or killing, but I understand that God brings judgement upon this world, and that is His sovereign right. Further, that He would not be just if He didn't bring judgement.
Your argument blew up at the first "but".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
