(July 29, 2013 at 2:27 pm)sarcasticgeographer Wrote: [Begin sarcasm]
"god": I gave you free will.
Me: But, what if I don't want to believe in you?
"god": You will suffer eternally in hell.
Me: But, what about free will? Can't I be given the voluntary choice to not believe in you?
"god": You must believe in me or suffer eternally!
Me: If this is so important to you, then why did you give me free will?
"god": You must believe in me or else!
Me: What about Adam and Eve, did they have free will?
"god": Yes, Eve ate the forbidden fruit and I told her not to!
Me: Is free will really voluntary? Or are you a narcissistic sadist?
"god": I am not a sadist!
Me: If you are not a sadist, then why did you create hell? Is it not for punishing those who refuse to believe you?
"god": I am done with you.
Me: I am done with you.
[/End sarcasm]
That's my whole problem with the basis of Christianity. Like I said, there is no opt-in or opt-out to God's system. God set up the system of "worship me or be punished forever" and forcing us all into it without our consent. I never signed any contract where I agreed to worship God or burn in hell as a consequence for violating the contract, but yet for some reason we're all contractually bound to that system. It's not my fault that some lady long before I was even born ate some fruit, nor is it my fault that a deity blames me for what she did.
Of course Christians will argue the might makes right position (God created us so he can do whatever he wants with us) but that still doesn't make it right.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
