(September 7, 2013 at 10:06 am)Esquilax Wrote:(September 6, 2013 at 11:21 pm)Godschild Wrote: I'll keep this one handy, I can see it being useful in the near future.
I do take this to mean that Christians can now justly judge the nonbelievers without ridicule from you.
GC
The threat of ridicule has never stopped you from judging people in the past.
Besides, judge away. You've got just as much right to your opinion as we do, and you've got precisely the same ability to express that on the forums. Just, prepare to be disagreed with.
I've never really understood this need to keep certain beliefs sacrosanct and away from critique that you guys have.
Thats easy to answer, religion falls apart under critique. So religious of all stripes try to make their beliefs beyond criticism so that it does not torn in front or their eyes. When it does torn down one of three things happen for a theist: the go into mental acrobatics to warp and twist it into shape, various forms of denial, or loss of faith and all of those option are bad for the religion.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
