(January 11, 2018 at 4:17 pm)Astreja Wrote:(January 11, 2018 at 3:29 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Yep, if there is a creator/afterlife-judge, He should have either created me without a bullshit detector and gullible enough to belief this nonsense, or else have made a better effort at communicating at the level of intelligence granted us. But since the idea is absurd on the face of it, who cares?
I find the most absurd thing of all is the excuses that believers make so that they don't have to own up to the more unpleasant consequences of their myth complex. How can I "choose" hell if I don't want to be in such a place, don't believe it exists, and don't want eternal life of any kind?
In GC's myopic view, I have only two choices and neither one is a good one. Either I have to lie to myself about believing in GC's god and also violate the core of my moral sensibility by agreeing to let Jesus be sacrificed on my behalf, or an insanely powerful being will condemn me to never-ending torment. I have no viable choice, and it's bullshit to say that I do have a choice.
And this kind of shit makes me absolutely furious. I'm appalled and disgusted by GC's stance, so much so that if I had the power to do so I would literally destroy all vestiges of his faith and reduce him to a sobbing heap on the floor, and I would do so without a single regret.
They've got to be condescending to piss me off that much. I just see GC as a victim of all the kool aid he was hooked on early. I'd rather just see xtians learn not to see different worldviews as a threat to his own. If he could also recognize that he lacks grounds for certainty, it might just help him develop more tolerance for other points of view. Unfortunately he thinks he is duty bound to shove the 'good' word our way until he expires. Pity.
