[split] Are Questions About God Important?

[The Grand Nudger]

Well, it could be..but man, I'm telling you, you've got to reach a little harder here. I'm not going to be alone in thinking, for example, that you don't actually have all that much trouble coming up with normative or moral statements that don't depend on a god. This is generous of your audience - because, as you see with the other gentlemen, you tend to keep professing that you really are the amoral sociopaths we don't think you are.

Alot..and I mean alooot...of these convos, never get passed that point. Where our new believing friend says "we're all sociopaths" and we say "I'm sure we're not, that you're not" and then for days it's just reassertion after reassertion and endless feigned ignorance until, finally, everyone gives up and says. "Okay Christian, i guess you're a sociopath..jesus fucking christ...." In fairness, many of you have grown up assuming these sorts of things so casually that you don't know how hard-core nut asshole it sounds when you show up here and share what would go without question, correction, or pushback in your own circles, even if literally none of you believe it as-such. Virtue signaling. Pious prattle.

Let's try a thought experiment. If you went to your church or temple or fellowship or whatever, and told the folks there that...if god weren't real... there'd be no reason you could think of not to eat their kids....what do you think would happen?