(June 26, 2015 at 12:13 pm)PiousPaladin Wrote: This world is the creation of another, higher being. It does not matter what you think about it, these are the rules that have been laid out and can rest happily in the knowledge that the creator who is all good sees the full picture and formation we do not.
You do not get to question him, what he has decided goes. If you don't like it then well, tough.
And again I must point out that such a being should terrify you. You live at the whim of an angry and vengeful creature who can do as he pleases to whom he pleases. You cannot hide from him. You cannot even shield your thoughts from him. He is unstoppable. And he is capable of mass slaughter and painful torment and cruelty regardless of how good you think you are, or how devout you think you are. And if he decides that it's time to make you suffer the worst misery you've ever experienced, you have no choice but to suffer it and be thankful that he didn't get any other ideas while he was working you over.
And you want to spend an eternity within reach of this beast.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
