(November 28, 2012 at 6:51 pm)Drich Wrote:(November 28, 2012 at 5:28 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Honest question Drich....have you ever felt that I'm offering criticism of someone else's god when I speak to you?....if so..in what way have a failed to stress that I'm criticizing your god? I'd like to know, so I can make my criticisms more explicit.Ahh, an open invite to be critical of one of you...
In just about every incarnation of God you bring to the table, it stinks of your own personal theological understanding of God. It would be like if I were friends with a famous person, and you only knew him through TV or worse yet just through the tabloids, and then started asking me to acount for his actions on a tv show or if you were to ask why he dumped this girl and starting going out with a much hotter actress...
If you want to address my friend or my God then get to know him then formulate questions around actual characteristics and not the crap that you 'seen on TV'
To use your own analogy, you correct me on all my misconceptions about your friend, but as it turns out, he's a much bigger dick than I had previously imagined. You then suggested that your friend wouldn't seem like such a dick if I changed my perception of what a dick is. So I did, and now Satan and I are the best of buddies. If it's good for the goose...
