(September 9, 2013 at 5:21 pm)Beta Ray Bill Wrote:(September 9, 2013 at 4:22 pm)Drich Wrote: It depends on the farmer, the culture the farmer is in, How cats are viewed, how Dog's are viewed, and most importantly the reason for the farmers actions.
You are describing a senerio that explains nothing, let alone tied your little senerio to God in any way shape or form. your trying to make a blind appeal to emotion.
It's a metaphor, guys. If I need to describe what everything means in it, you're just not getting the point, nor do I think you can.
Let me be more clear:
For the book, it's obvious. Studying the way the world works gives far more accurate answers than just going by blind faith. Is research and science always right? Of course not. That can be proven. But so can the fallacy of faith. That can be proven, too, and has been, numerous times. Christians just close their minds to those proofs. It's the only way they can be right. And they call atheists Relativists? Read through this forum for examples of Christian fallacy.
God knows every sin that ever was and ever will be, and he has the power to stop every one. He's the farmer sitting on the patio with his shotgun. But the vast majority of the time the crimes and atrocities happen with no interference by a God (some are stopped by human rescue or just dumb luck). And if we go by Christian understanding, the criminals will get what's coming to them in the afterlife. WTF? An omnipotent, omniscient, omni-everything being could have stopped the crime from happening in the here and now? And yet he doesn't? Is that love or justice?
No, that's just brutal INDIFFERENCE. And if it's some sort of plan of God's, I might as well go out and kill somebody, because it would be what God planned, so it's okay to do.
Non-secular morality is fantasy bullshit. Crimes need to be dealt with in the here and now, not saved for the afterlife. It's simple logic. Why can't you guys see that? There is no current love from a supreme being in this world. Murders far outnumber heroic rescues and escapes. And if that's a god's plan for the universe, then it's obvious that WE JUST DON'T MATTER TO HIM.
Why? Because he just doesn't frickin' exist, that's why. =P
Metaphores only work when they paralell what is being discussed in some way shape or form.
