(May 23, 2013 at 3:59 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 23, 2013 at 2:26 pm)Praetorian Wrote: Nobody in this thread has claimed they are wiser than God (yet).Maybe not you specifically. It is a clear implication from certain atheist pronouncements like the following:
God is malevolent. = I am more righteous than God.
God's incompetent because doesn't save everyone. = I am the judge of who should be saved.
God's creation is flawed. = I have the expertise to evaluate God's performance.
God created evil. = I have better moral judgement than God.
So you're wrong. Nearly every atheist objection to God, as God, assumes that the atheist is smarter, wiser and more righteous than God.
I never made any claim to righteousness, I have no desire to decide on
who gets saved (no body is going to be, and saved from what, exactly?)
It doesn't take much to figure out that the silly fairy story of Adam and
Eve was a blatant case of entrapment, which certainly fits the OED
definition of malevolent. So does killing every living thing on the
planet cuz you're in a bad mood. And lots of other things. And what's the
deal with this blood sacrifice thing with the passion of the Christ?
That is more than just a little sick.
“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
