RE: My former Pastor: "You're not accountable to anyone."...
October 10, 2010 at 12:09 am
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2010 at 12:30 am by Anomalocaris.)
(September 15, 2010 at 2:02 pm)dave4shmups Wrote: Ok, so we just talked on the phone, but he said that why not just look at porn magazines, why not just "live it up", because you're not accountable to anyone?? How do I answer that objection to my Atheism?? He also said, where are you going to go when "your hear melts down", ie, hard times hit? Finally, he said that morals come from somewhere, and that we are getting worse rather then better, as human beings-presumably without Christianity.
I really would like to know how to answer him.
It seems your pastor has unwittingly admitted that HE himself is a sorry louse too spineless to form and follow an independent morality of his own, that HE would live a wasted life of wanton dissipation unless he imagines himself to be rigidly supervised and spanked by a totalitarian mental overlord in the sky, and HE can not possibly be counted on when hard time hits because his own head will melt down, and HE wishes to ease HIS own pitiful self loathing by attributing to everyone he could lay his biblical filth on, including you, with the same contemptible lack of character that characterize him.
It seems that much of Christianity caters to similar sorry louses who can't imagine the "chance driven" and "godless" natural world is in fact filled by people much better than they are.
