RE: Is purposeless torture moral?
April 19, 2012 at 12:32 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2012 at 12:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm actually quite fond of the idea of being "separated from god" for all eternity. I truly am. Under normal circumstances I would definitely not be the kind of person who would choose to torture myself. However, if the price of entry into this god free zone is torture, and your god is as massive a douche as you make him out to be, well......all of a sudden it becomes a price worth entertaining, to say the least.
Now, before you complain that I just don't understand, let me say that you may be right. If you are though, then perhaps something should be done about that? It isn't a lack of explanations or understanding that gives me such a strong distaste for your god, it is the well-spring of absolutely disgusting explanations and understanding that have brought me here. The apologetics you present GC, out of all of the amatuer apologists we have here, are the least satisfying. You make statements like "I could not say 100%" and then go on to make truth claims and statements of knowledge nevertheless. As you are pressed the picture of your deity becomes increasingly negative. If you describe a disgusting deity, then what else should we call it? Has the thought ever occurred to you that the faithful might be shitting all over god's good name, yourself included?
Now, before you complain that I just don't understand, let me say that you may be right. If you are though, then perhaps something should be done about that? It isn't a lack of explanations or understanding that gives me such a strong distaste for your god, it is the well-spring of absolutely disgusting explanations and understanding that have brought me here. The apologetics you present GC, out of all of the amatuer apologists we have here, are the least satisfying. You make statements like "I could not say 100%" and then go on to make truth claims and statements of knowledge nevertheless. As you are pressed the picture of your deity becomes increasingly negative. If you describe a disgusting deity, then what else should we call it? Has the thought ever occurred to you that the faithful might be shitting all over god's good name, yourself included?
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