Parts of the Bible theists on this board ignore
June 7, 2014 at 1:55 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2014 at 2:29 am by Rampant.A.I..)
It was more a question of the discrepancy between verses like "give unto Caesar what is caesar's," verses like Luke 3:14 which seems to implicitly say harassing people who lack your belief system, and how poor behavior, intellectual dishonesty, lying, and slander is acceptable behavior to theist posters, when their own book tells them not to troll Internet forums and slander nonbelievers.
Or, to put another way:
Don't saunter into neutral territory as a born-again who converted in prison to accuse people of being amoral scum, tell a group of nonbelievers what they actually believe, and then play martyr when you reap the whirlwind.
And GC, the "lying to children" argument isn't mine. I'm referencing an argument that states:
"If God has demonstrably lied to Man for reasons we may not understand, any more than a child can understand why a parent would lie to us about Santa Claus or the death of a beloved family pet other than to protect us, why should we trust anything God tells us?
Given that God has demonstratively lied to Abraham and in other instances, how can we know any promised afterlife is real, given that parents construct the same sort of afterlife for beloved childhood pets, to protect them from the pain of ultimate loss?
What if 'God,' however defined, is merely fulfilling the same parental role?"
Like I said, it's not my argument. But it is interesting.
What if God is lying to you to protect you, for reasons you can't begin to understand?
Or, to put another way:
Don't saunter into neutral territory as a born-again who converted in prison to accuse people of being amoral scum, tell a group of nonbelievers what they actually believe, and then play martyr when you reap the whirlwind.
And GC, the "lying to children" argument isn't mine. I'm referencing an argument that states:
"If God has demonstrably lied to Man for reasons we may not understand, any more than a child can understand why a parent would lie to us about Santa Claus or the death of a beloved family pet other than to protect us, why should we trust anything God tells us?
Given that God has demonstratively lied to Abraham and in other instances, how can we know any promised afterlife is real, given that parents construct the same sort of afterlife for beloved childhood pets, to protect them from the pain of ultimate loss?
What if 'God,' however defined, is merely fulfilling the same parental role?"
Like I said, it's not my argument. But it is interesting.
What if God is lying to you to protect you, for reasons you can't begin to understand?
