RE: Dilemma for theists!
April 19, 2012 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2012 at 9:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You're attempting to explain magic by invoking magic, and then, to top it off, not actually explaining it at all? I don't think you thought that one through.
Isn't it just as easy to say that your "friend" is retarding your "moral growth" by becoming your fall guy? Whats the deal, can't handle your own bullshit? Do you often need to be saved from situations that you create? Do you think that maybe if a person kept finding themselves in such a position that they might act in a different manner the next time such a situation presented itself if they were allowed, you know, just once, to accept full responsibility for what they had done, and the consequences thereof? This sounds like a child's desire to avoid punishment, not an adults acceptance of their own culpability in matters to which they alone are culpable.
You are still unclear on what scapegoating is after I sent you two wiki's? You tell me, are soldiers being scapegoated? And what does this have to do with your fairy tale, and whether or not I accept scapegoating "gifts"? Are you going to start in on how glorious it is that soldiers die in battle. How wonderful their "gift" to us is? Wrong audience, I'll take that sort of bullshit personally. I don't have to form some secondhand opinion of the service through the lens of your disgusting little appeals to scapegoating. Has it ever occurred to you, btw, that soldiers who sacrifice themselves for their buddies do so because to be the one left behind accepting this "gift" is the worst possible fate? Or maybe, just maybe, it's drilled into them. Or maybe they don't think about it at all. Or maybe armed conflict is about the worst possible topic you could wander over to while discussing religion...........
Isn't it just as easy to say that your "friend" is retarding your "moral growth" by becoming your fall guy? Whats the deal, can't handle your own bullshit? Do you often need to be saved from situations that you create? Do you think that maybe if a person kept finding themselves in such a position that they might act in a different manner the next time such a situation presented itself if they were allowed, you know, just once, to accept full responsibility for what they had done, and the consequences thereof? This sounds like a child's desire to avoid punishment, not an adults acceptance of their own culpability in matters to which they alone are culpable.
You are still unclear on what scapegoating is after I sent you two wiki's? You tell me, are soldiers being scapegoated? And what does this have to do with your fairy tale, and whether or not I accept scapegoating "gifts"? Are you going to start in on how glorious it is that soldiers die in battle. How wonderful their "gift" to us is? Wrong audience, I'll take that sort of bullshit personally. I don't have to form some secondhand opinion of the service through the lens of your disgusting little appeals to scapegoating. Has it ever occurred to you, btw, that soldiers who sacrifice themselves for their buddies do so because to be the one left behind accepting this "gift" is the worst possible fate? Or maybe, just maybe, it's drilled into them. Or maybe they don't think about it at all. Or maybe armed conflict is about the worst possible topic you could wander over to while discussing religion...........
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
