(May 20, 2013 at 4:34 pm)missluckie26 Wrote: Eh, when it's a freshly dropped lifelong indoctrinated fear then it sucks being told you're not in the club anymore so you're going to hell. The Only time I tell someone their god is a malicious bastard is when they've asked for it. There's a difference between defensiveness and offensiveness.
I very much hope that my having said that he couldn't help felt to you like I was saying you should not tell him off. He certainly deserved what you said to him. Rather I did not want what he was saying to get to you. IOW, don't let it bother you. He's so sure he has the answer. Guess he wants to save us all.
I know how it feels to be "not in the club anymore so you're going to hell". One sister is a nun and the other is in charge of her parish's religious education. Neither will speak to me anymore.
It REALLY sucks being told that. But they're the ones with the problem, not us.
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
