RE: How can Christians not admit Christianity is all a pile of garbage when ...?
February 11, 2012 at 4:31 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2012 at 4:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
So, the ad populum was one? That's definitely the one I think is probably the most convincing to children (as you've mentioned, all of these people, adults, your parents...they can't be wrong).
Have you ever considered that maybe god is mean, and nasty, and a male chauvinist (or that he is all of those things and also omnibenevolent-as per your sig line..why would god be bound by logic)? I mean, I don't like the idea either, but that doesn't mean it can't be true because of those things. God might be exactly the kind of bastard you wouldn't like. That's not really much of a reason for disbelief in god, simply because you don't like him or the type of being he is said to be. Though it's obviously more than enough reason not to worship him.
On a related note, have you ever wondered if your upbringing might have left a legacy of gullibility in it's wake? That the claims you were raised with might have conditioned you to be accepting towards other, similar claims, or requiring of a replacement once your sense of the numinous had been lost with regards to those once cherished(i use the term loosely, very loosely) but now discarded beliefs?
I agree, trying to salvage these myths with regards to reality is pointless, but the same can be said of the vedas, or the various myths that form the focus of worship in Wicca, etc.
Have you ever considered that maybe god is mean, and nasty, and a male chauvinist (or that he is all of those things and also omnibenevolent-as per your sig line..why would god be bound by logic)? I mean, I don't like the idea either, but that doesn't mean it can't be true because of those things. God might be exactly the kind of bastard you wouldn't like. That's not really much of a reason for disbelief in god, simply because you don't like him or the type of being he is said to be. Though it's obviously more than enough reason not to worship him.
On a related note, have you ever wondered if your upbringing might have left a legacy of gullibility in it's wake? That the claims you were raised with might have conditioned you to be accepting towards other, similar claims, or requiring of a replacement once your sense of the numinous had been lost with regards to those once cherished(i use the term loosely, very loosely) but now discarded beliefs?
I agree, trying to salvage these myths with regards to reality is pointless, but the same can be said of the vedas, or the various myths that form the focus of worship in Wicca, etc.
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