RE: A disgraceful god
April 20, 2021 at 10:14 am
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2021 at 10:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If gods are personal and intervening, the central claim of theism, there's no logical reason that they couldn't be as disgraceful and horrid and bankrupt as any other personal and intervening being - aka us. The faithful will give you all sorts of superstitious and religious explanations, ofc.
This isn't a reason to disbelieve - but it is a reason to disregard any such god as authoritative exactly as we would disregard such a person. If god were a tiger or an asshole or both - it might help to know how to avoid being eaten by a tiger, but you're not exactly taking life lessons from the tiger.
This isn't a reason to disbelieve - but it is a reason to disregard any such god as authoritative exactly as we would disregard such a person. If god were a tiger or an asshole or both - it might help to know how to avoid being eaten by a tiger, but you're not exactly taking life lessons from the tiger.
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