(September 20, 2013 at 6:30 pm)Brakeman Wrote: If you were god and you were giving your special creation animal (man) the innate desires he needs, why would you give him more desire to please a busty young woman than his creator god? Why would he forget to give Adam a huge dose of dopamine when he pleases god and searing pain when he sins? He would still have "free will" to take the pain or not, and It's not like it's not his ultimate punishment anyway. Furthermore, christians claim that they are happiest when walking in the lords footsteps and saddest when sining, so why do they have such paltry levels? God would get a whole lot more faithful followers by quintupling that level of brain chemical reward.
Secondly, if wants us to love him as he loves us, does that mean we can threaten him too? Can I get away with cutting the tip of his penis off if he had that done to me?
Something that comes up in the Bible again and again, as well as Christian history, is the idea that if something good happens, it must be because of God, and when something bad happens, it must be because of man. Have faith in yourself, I say. Pat yourself on the back when something goes right, and take it with a grain of salt when shit happens. It just makes more sense.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey