RE: 10 Questions Biblical Literalists Cannot Honestly Answer
June 23, 2017 at 10:24 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2017 at 10:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
"God and his followers" seems to leave out a significant portion of people for whom it already hasn't and won't end up well. Presumably, those people deserve a smidge more consideration in any assessment of whether or not it all turns out well in the end.
While a person may, for example..still decide to breed 20 puppies knowing that few will survive their life of bitter cruelty and unending misery under the boot of a puppy kicking breeder......pointing to those that manage -not- to have their necks stepped on doesn't actually address or help to avoid the inevitable ethical and moral dilemmas created by those that -do- have their neck stepped on. One is, in offering such a defense of those criticisms, simply saying "meh, they don;t count" - which, itself, create a moral and ethical dilemma, not only for god..but for whomever proposed it as a resolution.
One might wonder who the dick here, is, in all of this. God or god's apologists. From the biblical narrative, it -seems- as though god wasn't pleased with drowning the earth, that all had not, in fact, turned out well. It even seems that god was reticient with regards to it's own actions and decisions which led to that watery end. Granted, it's more exercise in theology than anything else, what with there never having been any deluge. That, to me, is what makes it all the more perplexing. This drowning of the world is one of the most extravagant examples of those things which god is said to do in the biblical narrative that create moral and ethical dilemmas for both god and god believers. If one wanted to rid one's self of those dilemmas, as a god believer, the solution ought to be obvious. Rather than reenforce those dilemmas with the cruelty stated up above....one simply needs to acknowledge that it never happened, and poof, like magic, you've sucesffuly defended this god concept from that critcism. As a bonus, one doesn't look like an ignorant fairy tale believer...at least on that specific count.
While a person may, for example..still decide to breed 20 puppies knowing that few will survive their life of bitter cruelty and unending misery under the boot of a puppy kicking breeder......pointing to those that manage -not- to have their necks stepped on doesn't actually address or help to avoid the inevitable ethical and moral dilemmas created by those that -do- have their neck stepped on. One is, in offering such a defense of those criticisms, simply saying "meh, they don;t count" - which, itself, create a moral and ethical dilemma, not only for god..but for whomever proposed it as a resolution.
One might wonder who the dick here, is, in all of this. God or god's apologists. From the biblical narrative, it -seems- as though god wasn't pleased with drowning the earth, that all had not, in fact, turned out well. It even seems that god was reticient with regards to it's own actions and decisions which led to that watery end. Granted, it's more exercise in theology than anything else, what with there never having been any deluge. That, to me, is what makes it all the more perplexing. This drowning of the world is one of the most extravagant examples of those things which god is said to do in the biblical narrative that create moral and ethical dilemmas for both god and god believers. If one wanted to rid one's self of those dilemmas, as a god believer, the solution ought to be obvious. Rather than reenforce those dilemmas with the cruelty stated up above....one simply needs to acknowledge that it never happened, and poof, like magic, you've sucesffuly defended this god concept from that critcism. As a bonus, one doesn't look like an ignorant fairy tale believer...at least on that specific count.
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