(December 11, 2024 at 9:38 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote:All I see is a disjointed rant with some unevidenced assumptions? You seem to think stringing thinks you hate together in sentence decrying them has some meaning, beyond expressing unevidenced bigotry, who knows why. One can almost visualise you thumping your bible down on a lectern, while ranting from a pulpit, maybe this would go over well to a theistic audience, but I don't find unevidenced rhetoric that impressive.(December 11, 2024 at 7:21 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: If your godthing is real why the fuck wouldn’t I be concerned with what it can do for me?
Because presumably you should be more mature as a person, though that is neither guranteed nor in anyone's hands other than your own.
The loss of nobility for dictatorship of the masses - and the ability to comprehend concepts like "respect" and "values" - has nearly done as much damage to the Western psyche as the rejection of God and the Liberal Value Plague of 1848 -
Quote: if you cant figure out why an all-powerful figure deserves better than your attitude and demanding things from him... well, I wish you the best of luck learning going forward.
Cheers, but since there is no objective evidence this all powerful figure, imagined by people from an epoch of extreme ignorance and superstition, is real, I will treat the claims accordingly, as of course I must. I mean I don't spend a great deal of time worrying about comic book villains, or that a nefarious mermaid will drag me to a watery grave, and for the same reason.