RE: The Bible-Boooooring
March 30, 2013 at 11:45 am
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2013 at 11:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 30, 2013 at 11:41 am)Tex Wrote: Use? Considering he is the source of all res, unum, aliquid, bonum, et verum, I think he's pretty useful. However, worship so that you can get use is not worship. That's called "using people".Laying aside that this is a bare assertion which you will be incapable of establishing.......and?
Quote:Quoting myself... "The reason I follow my God's commandments isn't that he decides morality nor is it that he obeys morality (Euthyphro)..."I appreciate that you figured it would be prudent to repeat yourself, but this doesn't help to clear up my confusion about the usefulness of your god, or the purpose of your worship.
Quote:I think you answered your own question at the end there. Also, since my God has never murdered, I think he's clear.Oh, I'm sure we could come up with excuses all day long, but to be honest, I'm uninterested in how you might wrest your god out of the OT. Your friend asks that I accept scapegoating. That's pretty terrible amigo. I don't have any friends that would ask this of me. So no, he's not clear, and neither are you. You both have blood on your hands if this is all that we might reference.
(how many times will you have to imply that I'm incompetent before it excuses your own incompetence, do you reckon?)
You know, I have to get this down somewhere before I forget - because those moments when I can tease some lucidity and value from the biblical narrative are rare - I've often heard that jesus didn't come for the righteous, but for the sinners. If this were true, and if the word sin is to have any substance at all, then I'd be inclined to agree.....as acceptance of vicarious redemption would be the most egregious example of sin that I can imagine. That might be a failure of my imagination though, others maybe able to come up with something more "sinful", more abhorrent and hollow, something entirely more evil than this. They might, but I think it's a pretty tall order.
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