(April 15, 2010 at 5:41 pm)chatpilot Wrote: It's funny when you see xtians going out of their way to justify his cruelty to the point of absurdity or rather insanity.
I like to ask them how they know the being who drowned everyone in the world is really "God". The only way we "know" that he's "God" is because the Bible says so. And the Bible is supposedly the word of this god. Does it really make sense that this supposedly "good and just" being would drown babies?
Imagine if Adolf Hitler wrote a book claiming that he was "loving and just" and that FDR was evil. People could have used this book to justify their belief that Hitler was a humanitarian and Roosevelt was a tyrant. Nonbelievers could point out how Hitler had death camps and killed millions of people. The believers would just say that "Hitler had his reasons. He judged them and, in his infinite wisdom, found them guilty. And after all, those people are now happy living in heaven!"
Substitute "God" for "Hitler", and "the great flood" for "death camps", and you have the same reasoning used by believers to justify the awful things done by their deity.
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
