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Evidence for God being "a superior being" ?
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RE: Evidence for God being "a superior being" ?
(June 18, 2010 at 7:12 pm)tackattack Wrote: 1-It is meaningful. I'm missing your point. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your perspective but what kind of skewed perspective sees receiving unconditional love bringing up ideas of fucking absurdity and every conceivable form of abuse imaginable. Please help me see your perspective better.
What I'm saying is why redefine "love" to demonstrate a deity is supposedly "superior" to Homo sapiens? After all we already have the word and its associated meaning so this exercise seems rather pointless.


tackattack Wrote:2-Just one .. that's easy there are lots.
Hosea 13:16


for just a few..No need for a challenge .. I've fully admitted that there are lots of atrocities attributed to God in the Bible.
Evil that's only attributed to God? *sigh* Well, I only asked for one but conversely I wish I could say it was as straightforward a task for me to find 'divine benevolence' as many Christian apologists claim, but just about every example in Old Testament Bibical text where God isn't slaughtering everyone is just a display of his character being utterly narcissistic and ultimately self-serving, there were few to choose from:




Again, see the highlighted text "from my own sake", not, for your sake, every action is to propagate his own glory, everything has to revolve around this petty little ego-manic. The New Testament doesn't help matters as its always a second party professing his morality, not God himself:





tackattack Wrote:3-I've never once said that you're going to hell, just that you're wearing blinders.
By your faith where do you think I'm going after I'm worm-food?


tackattack Wrote:If I can respect your decision, why wouldn't my God?
Because you care you've shown that you're more moral than your god concept and I wish you'd own up to that. If you had the kind of absolute power that's attributed to this deity, I'm confident, though not certain, that you'd use it to do good, regardless of whether people loved you back or not.

I know this is nothing grander than an appeal to emotion, but as far as the fictional concept of your god goes, he's demonstrated often that he doesn't give two shits about people like me, my existence, my hopes, my dreams, my family or my friends.
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RE: Evidence for God being "a superior being" ? - by Welsh cake - June 19, 2010 at 9:55 am

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