LISTEN, CHRISTIANS!

[Rhondazvous]

This is a discussion forum.  All are entitled to express their opinions.  If there were no theists or deists here, there would never be mention of a god.  As it is however, there are theists and deists here and therefore, discussions will abound about god.  For sake of argument we sometimes treat this non-existent entity as though it were real.  Without this treatment, the discussions would simply all end in;

"There is no god.  End of argument.  Get over it."

Sometimes, in the heat of the discussion, emotions come into play and your god is really a fucking tyrannical misanthrope, so treating it as an existent deity does bring out the "We hate your god" syndrome.

When reading a well written book or a well done movie, it is easy to get emotional and develop an extreme dislike for some of the characters and relish in their demise, but once the movie is over or the book is read, the characters no longer exist and the 'hate' is gone.  When we leave the forum, we do not go on a "We hate god" rampage, but rather we forget it until next time.

So while we are here discussing your non-existent deity, you can rest assured that we do have a 'non-existent' dislike for your fucking tyrannical misanthrope.

Maybe they want us to talk like this:

I want to discuss Dr. Seuss’s fictional character, the Cat in the Hat. But let me make it very clear that I don’t believe that said Cat in said Hat actually exist. In the story there’s Thing 1 (who doesn’t actually exist) and Thing 2 (who is equally non-existent). Dr. Seuss has a fictional fish swimming around in a fictional fish bowl chastising fictional children whose fictional parents will soon return to their fictional home. Please note that I said these are all fictional characters and I do not believe that any of them actually exists.

We could use this method when speaking about the fictional god of the Christian church. That way nobody gets confused about whether we believe in this fictional god, who, by the way, doesn’t actually exist.