RE: In the Beginning Man Was Stupid
November 10, 2012 at 7:07 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2012 at 7:14 pm by Aroura.)
I really wish you had given a fourth option. "A metaphorical tale meant to explain the origin of humans to ignorant people who couldn't possibly know any better". Or something along those lines. Lots of ancient cultures have these sorts of silly and entertaining creation myths. The big difference being that most people accept most of them as the myths that they are.
Still, I like your breakdown of just how silly this particular creation myth is.
I'd also like to point out a huge fallacy Drich is using, though I don't know the name of it. He often attributes very human qualities to God, such as with his "who at the cookies" analogy", but then at other times, god is unknowable and beyond our ken, such as in the problem of evil argument in another thread, where-in gods goodness (when he murders entire swaths of innocent, for example) cannot be understood by humans.
So why does God not have to conform to our morality (a major issue), but he totally conforms to stupid little social norms, like asking "okay kids, who ate the fruit?".
p.s. God used to conform to human morality completely, at the time all that shit was written, it was considered perfectly moral to do any and all of it. It is only when held by MODERN standards that god suddenly falls short. This alone should give any thinking person a pause...
Still, I like your breakdown of just how silly this particular creation myth is.
I'd also like to point out a huge fallacy Drich is using, though I don't know the name of it. He often attributes very human qualities to God, such as with his "who at the cookies" analogy", but then at other times, god is unknowable and beyond our ken, such as in the problem of evil argument in another thread, where-in gods goodness (when he murders entire swaths of innocent, for example) cannot be understood by humans.
So why does God not have to conform to our morality (a major issue), but he totally conforms to stupid little social norms, like asking "okay kids, who ate the fruit?".
p.s. God used to conform to human morality completely, at the time all that shit was written, it was considered perfectly moral to do any and all of it. It is only when held by MODERN standards that god suddenly falls short. This alone should give any thinking person a pause...
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
