(July 19, 2022 at 11:28 am)Angrboda Wrote: I'm calling it. "Troll."
Why?
Is it because atheists don't actually like standing up for anything meaningful?
Is it because they can't construct a moral code at all?
If education is valuable then when will the atheists rise up and take back our public education system which is starting to value gender theory over physics?
What are you guys capable of accomplishing? What will you stand for?
And how will this young movement prove itself to be more beneficial to the flourishing of human society than any religious system was in the past?
The way I see it, gravity (along with human morality) points down. Israel had every advantage, plagues in the name of freedom from Egypt (establishing YHWH's supremacy over every Egyptian god) a conquering hero (by the name of Joshua) and, when pressed, a wise king named Solomon. Yet, despite all of their advantages they looked at the borders of their land and said "but we want to be more like the pagans and less like the Hebrews." And so, their morality spiraled downwards into Idolatry, human sacrifice and a general lack of respect for any common law. Then, time and again they were punished for their misdeeds, some times by miracles and other times by conquering armies. Time and time again they were shown the error of their ways and still they backslid into rebellion and rampant immorality. The OT proves that human nature is flawed and only those who choose virtue over greed may obtain wisdom.
So I ask you guys, what will inspire you? What will keep you from the same fate as the Hebrews of the past? Or even that of the Catholic ministers of old who wished to conceal the way of truth by way of coercion and replace faith with a grand appeal to man made authority? What will stop your movement from being hijaked by Stalin? Endless debates on weather or not morality exists? Will this keep the progress of evil at bay? For how long?