Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.

[Mudhammam]

I believe you have completely missed the point. Well done. I give you a barn, I set it right before you, and...

Please, enough obfuscating already. You're beginning to sound like one of THEM.

Seriously, though... even if <any given answer> IS a lie: it is STILL 'an answer'.

This extends well beyond religion. Screw your head back in.

Bravo, you've established that an answer is an answer. Brilliant.

But is it a good answer? An answer we should tolerate people forcing onto us or on the next generation of human beings? I don't think so. Everyone has a right to believe what they want. But they don't have a right to spread fear and hate to kids who don't know any better.

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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?

Wow. Just wow. Yeah, stabbing a photograph makes one a sociopath. Or maybe an actor. I dunno, I guess it's hard to tell in a black and white world. And yeah, I would stab a picture if someone actually believed part of a person's soul resided in it. Watching their facial expression alone would be worth the amusement.