(November 27, 2012 at 7:48 pm)Undeceived Wrote: You could try to be noble and say "Since God did not treat the Canaanites like He promises to treat me, I will go on strike and reject His gifts" but would you be truthful? Is that really the reason you turn your face from your Creator?
It is not my fault that God could only choose to 'forgive' by submitting his 'son' to a horrifying death. That is no 'gift'. That's revolting. A being who can do anything can only do it that way?
Do you realize how much easier the theist's job would be if you dropped the omni-qualities of God? You'd have no more luck proving that there is a God at all, but it'd be easier to swallow if God was portrayed as a fuck-up who is trying to improve. If you insist that he is all-knowing and all-capable, then he falls miserably short of even the most wicked and cruel human's concept of morality.
I don't turn my face from God because I can't turn away from something which does not exist. But, if he did, I'd turn my face anyway, because for all my failings, shortcomings, and flaws of character, I am still a better person than God.
