RE: The Fragility of Religion/God
March 30, 2015 at 10:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2015 at 10:49 pm by *Deidre*.)
(March 28, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Spooky Wrote: Pretty sure some version of this has been brought up before. But I've read enough whiny bs on the forum I feel it's worth some discussion. Put simply, god doesn't seem to have any balls. (god is a girl?)Followers of the Abrahamic faiths tend to vehemently defend their god as it is mainly because god is seen as an asshole a lot of the time. If you believe in the OT 'god,' then you will have to defend his actions in order to recruit people to your way of thinking. Which recruitment is a tenet of Christianity and Islam, for example. The more violent and cruel a god is, the more defending he needs. I'm a Deist now, and I feel no need to 'defend' god nor my beliefs. Because I think the entire idea of a god is unknowable, it is hard to defend such an idea. Just my way of thinking about it, anyway. I agree with you, that if God was capable of creating the universe, why does such a magnanimous god need ...defending?
The slightest challenge to religion requires the most ferocious response.
Reading/studying anything that contradicts religion is forbidden. (Or anything contradicting originated from the devil, therefore no go)
If a religious person can't come up with good rebuttal, then we usually degenerate into derail or irrelevant tangents.
Why does god require so much defense? Why are christians (or any religion) so damn scared of other opinions? If your god is supposedly so powerful, why all the effort showing otherwise?
