RE: If I met Him...
January 11, 2021 at 3:06 am
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2021 at 3:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
All theistic gods are person-alike, John. That's what the term refers to. Christ is no more or less personlike and the story of christ has no more or less person-alikeness value than any other except in some subjective sense where christ is more like the kind of person you would like than some other. Obviously that doesn't hold in my case or the case of many other theists and atheists. I think that the character of jesus is a lesson in how to be a shitty person with shitty ideas. If gods exist, they may be person-alike..and even if they aren't they may have reason to act as much...but if they're like that person and act like that person...well...
Quote:The most striking disagreement is between those who regard the divine reality as personal and those who do not. Theists believe that even though the object of their ultimate concern transcends all finite realities it is more like a person than anything else with which we are ordinarily familiar, and typically conceptualize it as a maximally perfect person.https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/concepts-god/
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
