(January 1, 2017 at 8:19 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 1, 2017 at 8:02 pm)chimp3 Wrote: Do you think people who reject god are incapable of goodness and love?
Depends on what you mean by that.
What I believe is that God is goodness and love. A person who rejects goodness and love is ultimately rejecting God and God'a ways. But a person who simply doesn't believe God is real, isn't "rejecting" God if such person still strives to embrace goodness and love and strives to live accordingly.
A true rejection of God is fully knowing and understanding that God is goodness/love, and then choosing to turn away from all that and to embrace hatred and greed instead.
How you can square the 'understanding' that god is goodness/love if you've actually read the list of his crimes against humanity is a mystery. Rejecting the concept is down to a lack of evidence, but rejecting the idea that it's kind and loving is right there in his diary.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
