(June 9, 2015 at 3:39 pm)Exian Wrote: I do like that poem. I imagine as a theist, this poem says man is at fault for inciting god's wrath, but as an atheist, I see it as saying man is the cause of god.
You could look at it that way. My thoughts when I wrote it were more personal than theological. I noticed that whenever I felt like I was slipping and needed to get closer to god I always felt like I needed to buy something—a book or tape. I guess that even then, I was dissatisfied with all the requirements the Church was putting on me.. From an atheistic POV, a seed had been planted and breaking through the soil of Christian dogma.
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.
