(September 21, 2013 at 12:59 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Except that dictatorships are built on the whims of the dictators, not the desires of the people under their thumb. That's sort of... the main characteristic of a dictatorship. Since you've got absolutely no basis for saying that any creature in the garden would want to sin or not- and given that pesky human free will that led to the fall anyway- it's reasonable to think that that darn sinful nature would lead to... well, sin.The sin nature wasn't there before the first sin. Do you know anything about this subject?
Quote:But that's not germane, anyway; you're the one so hard for dictionary definitions, and I posted one. According to it, god fills the criteria for an oppressor; a ruler with the power to actively oppress if he wanted, applying unjust rules to a group of people with no chance of appeal.Except that wasn't the definition. Amazing how far you'll stretch these things.
