(March 28, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Spooky Wrote: The slightest challenge to religion requires the most ferocious response.
I would make a correction: in the stories in the Bible, the slightest challenge is often met with fierce responses.
In the really real world, God apparently is content sitting around allowing countless challenges. His followers may or may not respond with varying degrees of ferocity.
(March 28, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Spooky Wrote: 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?
Insecurity.
As much as they go on about all the positive aspects of God, if you press them long enough, the god they describe comes off as incredibly narcissistic with massive self esteem problems. Bonus points if they see this happening and add some addendum like ", but he's not narcissistic" (yes, I've seen this happen).
