RE: Anti-Theism
December 5, 2017 at 7:26 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2017 at 7:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 5, 2017 at 6:57 pm)Haipule Wrote: 1.) My life has always been one of extremes. The present is no exception--it's off the charts and unexplainable. However, when I was 29, I reached an end. Is my life a lie or, is theology a lie?Do we have to choose?
Quote:2.) Biblically speaking: Jesus IS God and He is man. Jesus plainly says so. God became a man so that He could die on a cross to pay a price for our ransom to our captor Death so that we might have life is His fame. However, that death made man right so, Jesus no longer had to be dead so, He raised the third day.-and yet we still die. It seems like a failed transaction.
Quote:3.) I didn't understand anti-theism but, I knew whom to ask. I have a much better understanding now but, it still doesn't make a lot of sense. I understand now the 'why' but, not so much the 'what'.Well, I'm here for your amusement. The "what" can be succinctly explained by reference to your comment above. Theism has you thinking that killing some jew has redeemed you somehow. Is that what a healthy ideology or concept is supposed to look like?
An anti-theist says "nyet", entirely apart from being wholly false, this is not a healthy concept or ideology. The very belief in such a god has made you a willing accomplice to a crime that never took place and should never take place. I doubt you'd beat some poor rando to death to cover your parking tickets..but once the conceit of a theistic god is applied you consider such scapegoating nonsense piety.
That's "what" anti-theism objects to, in just one example. I expect you, however, like most other believers I've expressed this to, to be incapable of seeing the narrative in this light. "He gave his life" "It was charity" "Gods plan" "No other way to pay the piper". This is the abrogation of moral duty, moral authority, and any semblence of intellectual rigor. Yet another "what" that anti-theism objects to, and yet another thing inherent in theistic beliefs.
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