RE: I wouldn’t be a Christian
November 8, 2018 at 6:47 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2018 at 6:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The trouble is that "christian benevolence" isn't exclusively christian, whilst christian atrocity is and has been.
Confirmation bias...okay (huh?)...but if so, what is being confirmed........?
That god would know his own and it;s okay to gut a motherfucker because of this. Only a christian can make this claim, because only a christian believes in the christian god to begin with..to know his own, for there to be a bias -to- confirm. Confirmation bias is not the problem, here, the bias which is being confirmed is. If the bias was that god does not deal that way and that it actually does matter who you kill and why, confirming -that- bias would not have lead to what the position lead to.
This is essentially a rehash of the position that fundamentalism is only a problem when the fundamentals are garbage. If they weren't garbage, it might not be a problem...but they are. To crib from the inimitable chris hitchens...present some good thing that only a believer can do or believe. Now present some terrible thing that only a believer can do or believe. Lets not pretend that we didn't draw a blank to the first and immediately arrive at an answer to the second.
Confirmation bias...okay (huh?)...but if so, what is being confirmed........?
That god would know his own and it;s okay to gut a motherfucker because of this. Only a christian can make this claim, because only a christian believes in the christian god to begin with..to know his own, for there to be a bias -to- confirm. Confirmation bias is not the problem, here, the bias which is being confirmed is. If the bias was that god does not deal that way and that it actually does matter who you kill and why, confirming -that- bias would not have lead to what the position lead to.
This is essentially a rehash of the position that fundamentalism is only a problem when the fundamentals are garbage. If they weren't garbage, it might not be a problem...but they are. To crib from the inimitable chris hitchens...present some good thing that only a believer can do or believe. Now present some terrible thing that only a believer can do or believe. Lets not pretend that we didn't draw a blank to the first and immediately arrive at an answer to the second.
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