(June 8, 2012 at 3:54 am)genkaus Wrote: Dude, chill. The answer to your last question is detailed in your little rant there. A deistic god does not assert any authority over us, he does not judge us and he does not interfere with our lives. Thus he cannot be brought up on criminal charges.Just because what I said was devastating, doesn't make it a rant. I just went through it every way it could be said; God has no basis for his authority, and if he has any, then he also has a responsibility.
(June 8, 2012 at 3:54 am)genkaus Wrote: Ofcourse, his defense counsel can make an argument that any exercise of authority is a result of an implicit consent to exercise authority given by theist, but that would mean that atheists and other non-believers would be outside the scope of that authority and there would be an additional burden to prove that god did exert his authority over them.OK that was just rambling. I have no idea what any of that is about.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
