RE: A really hard question on Satan and deception.
November 2, 2011 at 10:56 pm
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2011 at 10:57 pm by Cyberman.)
As far as I'm concerned reading anything from holy books is a pointless exercise, because every time I do it there's always some pre-programmed religious drone who tells me I'm doing it wrong. Either it's nitpicking issues of what a word actually means instead of what it would normally mean in any other situation; or it's "out of context" because any reference that paints the book in anything other than a perfect light - rape or slavery or whatnot - is actually talking about nice, fluffy things if only I knew how to read properly; or it's nonliteral and symbolic poetry that I can only understand if I swallow the red pill and have some mystical hallucination telling me which bits are which. It's a pathetic, childish game in which heads: you win, tails: I lose and you wonder why we come across as angry? For the record: I'm not angry, I just refuse to play. Sue me.
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.'
