RE: Horrible things in the bible
October 5, 2014 at 11:00 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2014 at 11:02 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(October 5, 2014 at 10:37 pm)Exian Wrote: The example this time around is a bear punching a kid! It's not mauling per se, just little soft BEAR PUNCHES! Suddenly, everything we know about the physical power of huge wild animals goes out the window.
Christians prefer to think of them as "love taps."
(October 5, 2014 at 10:53 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(October 5, 2014 at 10:42 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I should make this clear, because Christians often seem to miss the point, but while I find much of what the OT god does despicable, and I'm only marginally more pleased with the behavior of the NT god, that's not why I don't believe in him. I don't believe in him, because there is no evidence for him and nothing to make him more or less unlikely than all of the other god options.
Exactly. This is not why I don't believe.
This is, in part, why even if I were 100% sure that it existed, I would not worship it. Fear, sure - but not worship.
Such a being is worthy only of contempt, and shunning.
