RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 26, 2013 at 4:47 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2013 at 4:49 pm by jstrodel.)
(March 26, 2013 at 4:35 pm)Joel Wrote:(March 26, 2013 at 4:33 pm)jstrodel Wrote: What if God uses suffering to teach people things, the same way that a father teaches his children. God loves his children, but he uses suffering to teach them things. What if the scale is different from your fearful and politically colorized view of the nature of suffering? What if there was something that was even higher than you, even able to see a thing or two that you could not.
How can he teach people, that do not know of him, through suffering?
All cultures have a moral tradition that involves crime and punishment, as far as I am aware there absolutely no exceptions to this.
Re Harry Potter - The atheist, in absense of having a seroius argument, resorts to psychological manipulation techniques such as appealing to their maturity. They think when they repeat propaganda aimed at turning young people away from their parents religion, they are being critical thinkers, so hold as they hold fast to the propaganda and let only that and never clear logic or reason direct their rejection from rules.