RE: Message for all theists
March 11, 2012 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2012 at 1:37 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
(March 11, 2012 at 10:43 am)Tiberius Wrote:(March 11, 2012 at 7:37 am)Phil Wrote: On the contrary my dear, all theists think that humans are special in the universe.
Bullshit. Theism = belief in God, just as Atheism = disbelief / non-belief in God. Theism is not specific about kinds of Gods, just as Atheism is not specific about kinds of Gods.
Deism, for instance, is a theistic belief, yet most (if not all) deists believe in an impersonal God, who cares either very little or not at all about the goings on of humans, or the rest of the universe at large. You can't round up all the "personal God" Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc under the banner of "theism"; it doesn't work that way.
Who cares about the finer nuances of what their fantasy god does or doesn't do? There are as many of those as there grains of sand. And each about as important. Don't let your attention be diverted by flaky details: they all still worship a sadistic, murderous, egocentric god, and emulate Him – "in His Name" – at every opportunity. So they are all potential and defacto murderers at the drop of His Hat*.
And what should we do with murderers...?
*that is: when the church tells them that He commands it. E.g. the crusades.