(April 13, 2013 at 12:50 am)radorth Wrote: Yada yada yada. So goes the same black or white semi-thoughtful rationale fundy Christians and fundy atheists use in about equal measure.
God does not have to be 100% omniscient or 100% omnipotent to create anything. Maybe he is just one million times more powerful than a human. He's still God to that human. The Biblical God is chagrined about the amount of evil on the earth, so he is clearly not 100% omniscient. Who decided that he was 100% omniscient or even wanted to be? You? That's just an assumption atheists and Christians both make, then argue about as if it were a fact. Omnipotent
Who decides what qualifies as "omnipotent" or "all knowing"? You? If so, why you?
The problem you encounter, using this line of logic, is that it's nobody's fault that Luckie came up with this conclusion but the religion itself. Like it or not, there's no "standard" christianity, each and every believer seems to see it a little differently, and oddly, they all think they're right.
You seem to put more stock in your interpretation than in the outlooks of millions of other christians, yet you've failed to provide a reason why. You've scoffed at Luckie's interpretation, but given no enticement for us to take yours any more seriously. Why should we just assume that you're right and she's wrong?
Christianity made this bed with all this talk of metaphors, and personal revelation, and yet it steadfastly refuses to lie in it. You all just keep trundling on as though everyone else is the idiot for not blindly following your interpretation of your facsimile holy book. It's weird.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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