(March 20, 2013 at 10:16 am)Rhythm Wrote: You don't think that death is suitably terrifying compared to the carrot of eternal life? Its equally as cruel and equally as unjustified. No torture is required to call this faery out for the jailor and despot that people seem to believe him to be.
Well, yeah... but from an apologist's standpoint, it's much easier to go with the concept of death as an end ("a just god") versus death leading to eternal suffering (an unimaginably cruel god). Once I freed myself from religious bonds, the former took on a different light. The latter remains as batshit insane as it ever did.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
