Maybe those who need to symbolically strike out at God to convince themselves He is really dead should do so without enlisting the support of the whole tribe. Suck it up and go it alone. Reminds me of a scene somewhere of a pack of chimps approaching a dead leopard, eventually more and more of the group smack the dead leopard.
Since not everyone feels that God was ever a fearsome predator, not everyone has any fear to get out of their system. Then too not everyone agrees that God is dead.
That you'd be willing to stab a photo of a loved one just shows you have some capacity as a sociopath. Of course we all do, but we're not all cool with that.
I don't have any desire to invent and pass little tests of courage to prove that there is no godly leopard in the dark waiting to strike us down for it. Once we feel autonomous enough, the question of interest isn't what wouldn't you do but rather what's worth doing?
Since not everyone feels that God was ever a fearsome predator, not everyone has any fear to get out of their system. Then too not everyone agrees that God is dead.
That you'd be willing to stab a photo of a loved one just shows you have some capacity as a sociopath. Of course we all do, but we're not all cool with that.
I don't have any desire to invent and pass little tests of courage to prove that there is no godly leopard in the dark waiting to strike us down for it. Once we feel autonomous enough, the question of interest isn't what wouldn't you do but rather what's worth doing?
