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RE: No True Scotsman
June 24, 2014 at 12:50 pm
Gotta remember, he's omnipresent - that's a lot of surface area to tingle.
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RE: No True Scotsman
June 24, 2014 at 1:17 pm
(June 24, 2014 at 12:39 pm)Irrational Wrote: (June 24, 2014 at 10:02 am)fr0d0 Wrote: You need forgiveness for what you're doing wrong not what you haven't done.
Not from God.
How can a feeble puny being be able to wrong a mighty one like God? That would be such a highly sensitive God if he truly existed.
Yeah, I've often wondered about how the Abrahamic god created hundreds of billions of galaxies but gets upset when people pray in the wrong direction, eat non-Kosher food, don't believe the right things about why someone died 2000 years ago, or make love to someone with similar body parts. Dawkins had it right when he said religion creates petty gods.
Two bacteria cells are hanging out in a cultivate petri dish. One says to the other, "let me tell you about my personal relationship with the Great Lab Coat in the sky". That's the kind of scale we're talking about here.
IF God takes a personal interest and judges us at all, God is far more likely to be upset with religious leaders who've done so much damage and inflicted so much pain.
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RE: No True Scotsman
June 24, 2014 at 1:21 pm
Why assume that either though? Or, why assume that instead of assuming that the personal interest in us and judgement upon us are based on our prowess in battle, or something entirely random...like the lengths of our pinkies? What can we possibly know about some "god" things values?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: No True Scotsman
June 24, 2014 at 3:23 pm
(June 24, 2014 at 1:17 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: (June 24, 2014 at 12:39 pm)Irrational Wrote: Not from God.
How can a feeble puny being be able to wrong a mighty one like God? That would be such a highly sensitive God if he truly existed.
Yeah, I've often wondered about how the Abrahamic god created hundreds of billions of galaxies but gets upset when people pray in the wrong direction, eat non-Kosher food, don't believe the right things about why someone died 2000 years ago, or make love to someone with similar body parts. Dawkins had it right when he said religion creates petty gods.
Two bacteria cells are hanging out in a cultivate petri dish. One says to the other, "let me tell you about my personal relationship with the Great Lab Coat in the sky". That's the kind of scale we're talking about here.
IF God takes a personal interest and judges us at all, God is far more likely to be upset with religious leaders who've done so much damage and inflicted so much pain.
He is upset with religious leaders who cause damage and inflict pain. Why do think he wouldn't be? The reason that we can offend him is because we are so important to him. We're more important than those hundreds of billions of galaxies. We're the best of his creation.
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RE: No True Scotsman
June 24, 2014 at 3:58 pm
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All of us, the absolute cream of the crop? A quick glance around the internet won't turn up anybody for whom "his best creation" does not seem to apply?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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