(April 17, 2015 at 5:18 pm)Stimbo Wrote: The notion that "God" tests faith through trials is particularly abhorrent to me. It paints all other people in a person's life as little more than human props, in a drama centred around that person alone. Never mind that every sentient creature has a mind all their own, with their own dreams, desires and goals. Child born with a life-threatening condition? Family slaughtered in someone else's pointless war? That pensioner you hit with your SUV didn't make it? Never mind, it's just "God" testing your faith.
It's the same kind of blinkered, egocentric view that insists that the Universe ceases to exist when you close your eyes.
Talk to me. Tell it like 'tis.
The arrogance that makes these people say well God has a plan for my life, as if he didn't have a plan for that baby that died, is just indefensible. Though they make god look like a cosmic ogre and themselves look like idiots trying to defend it.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
