RE: One question for Christians
July 11, 2013 at 1:25 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2013 at 1:27 pm by Cyberman.)
(July 11, 2013 at 11:33 am)Dionysius Wrote: Do you take the same approach to gravity? The reason I ask this is because it seems your issue is with authority in general, God is is just incidental.
"Fuck you, you sun! for shining on me."
Difference is, we know the Sun exists. We know gravity exists ("It's not just a theory - it's the law!"). We can demonstrate and measure these things and we can use them in predictable, practical ways.
By contrast, the sum total of evidence and influence of all gods ever created is contained in this box:
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'