(August 28, 2018 at 5:54 pm)Vicki Q Wrote:(August 27, 2018 at 5:11 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: So, you're saying bad Christians are the reason bad things happen?
I can see why you might have gone there with the question, but it's not the idea. It happens that one of the implications of the story is a constant theme throughout the OT and NT. It is that disobeying God, in general, ends in tears, one way or the other.
Ask Job from the bible or those nine people that Dylan Roof shot down in that church in South Carolina, they'll tell you bad things happen to people who obey god, too. There's no statistically significant difference in what happens to people who obey god and those who don't.
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.