RE: An unanswerable question
February 24, 2014 at 11:44 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2014 at 11:54 am by Tonus.)
It makes me think of the scene in Kill Bill 2 where Bill is explaining the way that Superman is different from other super-heroes. He makes the point that Batman is Bruce Wayne's alter-ego, for example, but Clark Kent is Superman's alter-ego and not the other way around. Clark Kent is Superman's commentary on how he sees humanity-- when he wants to blend in, he reduces himself to a clumsy, clueless oaf.
Yahweh, on the other hand, openly mocks humanity by only changing the uniform, not the person underneath. He puts on his Jesus costume and fulfills the law and he doesn't even miss a beat. It's as if Superman put on his suit, tie, and glasses and then juggled airplanes while using his heat vision to give Lois Lane a nice tan and curing cancer on the side. Just because he looks like us doesn't mean he's a shitty little turd of a human being. God is better than you are, and he wants to make sure that you understand that, you pathetic little lump of clay (or rib bone, if you're a woman)!
Yahweh, on the other hand, openly mocks humanity by only changing the uniform, not the person underneath. He puts on his Jesus costume and fulfills the law and he doesn't even miss a beat. It's as if Superman put on his suit, tie, and glasses and then juggled airplanes while using his heat vision to give Lois Lane a nice tan and curing cancer on the side. Just because he looks like us doesn't mean he's a shitty little turd of a human being. God is better than you are, and he wants to make sure that you understand that, you pathetic little lump of clay (or rib bone, if you're a woman)!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould