(May 14, 2014 at 9:34 pm)Alice Wrote: It's awful self-righteous to preach to the poor and the downtrodden from a position of power.That's not a problem, though, since he was GOD. That's like being a package of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups that never runs out. You're damned right that's a position of power. If I had infinite RPBCs I'd be insufferably self-righteous.
"One of us. One of us. One of us."
In any case, what god did was put on a human costume and prance around and make fun of us. First he got a lady pregnant before his own balls even dropped. Then he was doing stuff that humans can't do (but he could, because he was really god wearing a human costume, tee-hee!) like walk on water and cure blindness. Then he was all like "lol go ahead, whip me and crucify me and see if I give a shit!" And then when they did all that he napped for three days and then was all like "BAM! I'm back!"
Then, instead of just taking off the costume and making himself king of the world and fixing everything right then and there, he was all like "later guys, gonna grab some popcorn and watch you all fumble around like retards until I'm ready to return lol." And he floated off on a cloud, just to remind us one last time that boy, it really sucks to not be god. Everyone was so pissed that it took like 70 years before they could even bring themselves to write anything about him.
But honest, he does sound like he'd be a cool guy to hang out with, as long as you are one of his tight homies.
"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