RE: Bart Ehrman May Shed Light on the Christian Response to Charleston, South Carolina
June 21, 2015 at 4:18 pm
I have been making an effort on my Face Book page to point out the inconsistencies between faith and reality, mainly by commenting on particular points that I see on the news and by making particular points of consideration that bother me. When I saw on TV the lady from NC that called the police when she recognized the shooter she said that was "part of God's plan." I commented on that and pointed out that if it was part of God's plan for her to see Roof and turn him in, it was also part of God's plan for Roof to shoot those nine innocent human beings, and that just did not make sense.
I also pointed out today in another post the inconsistency of an all powerful deity who does not lift a finger to save his own worshippers in his own house of worship, and that Christians make all kinds of excuses to downplay or ignore that. And when I was hearing about how the Conservatives, their pundits and FOX Propaganda were trying to play "Christianity the victim" card I called them out on it. Yes, these Dominionist pieces of shit want their theocracy and they act like whiney-ass babies crying about how oppressed and persecuted they are when they are definitely not. Liars should be called out on their lies.
I also pointed out, in relation to the Dominionist crybabies hollering how the Charleston Church Massacre was a crime against Christianity, that beyond the facts that mark this crime as both racist and terroristic (the "I want to kill black people" and "to start a race war" comments, and the Confederate flags on his vanity plate, apartheid era flags of Rhodesia and South Africa), it was also a Christian on Christian crime, because Roof was raised in a Christian home and his parents are reported as saying they are praying for the families of those their son shot, PLUS the fact that in white racist rhetoric and ideology references to Christianity are made quite often and are wrapped up in their bigotry. It was just as much a Christian on Christian crime as it was anything else.
So it is not always an uphill battle. Sometimes you just can't let certain things go.
Yeah, the die-hard glazed eyed believers are beyond reach. Those I know rational thought will never reach, and not so much concerned about them unless they make themselves a threat to the rest of us, and we should deal with them whenever they do pose a threat. But those in their faith that have questions, and this one criminal event may have shaken a few out of their trance of God, those are the ones I want to focus on. So we must keep making our arguments of pointing out that which does not make sense.
I also pointed out today in another post the inconsistency of an all powerful deity who does not lift a finger to save his own worshippers in his own house of worship, and that Christians make all kinds of excuses to downplay or ignore that. And when I was hearing about how the Conservatives, their pundits and FOX Propaganda were trying to play "Christianity the victim" card I called them out on it. Yes, these Dominionist pieces of shit want their theocracy and they act like whiney-ass babies crying about how oppressed and persecuted they are when they are definitely not. Liars should be called out on their lies.
I also pointed out, in relation to the Dominionist crybabies hollering how the Charleston Church Massacre was a crime against Christianity, that beyond the facts that mark this crime as both racist and terroristic (the "I want to kill black people" and "to start a race war" comments, and the Confederate flags on his vanity plate, apartheid era flags of Rhodesia and South Africa), it was also a Christian on Christian crime, because Roof was raised in a Christian home and his parents are reported as saying they are praying for the families of those their son shot, PLUS the fact that in white racist rhetoric and ideology references to Christianity are made quite often and are wrapped up in their bigotry. It was just as much a Christian on Christian crime as it was anything else.
So it is not always an uphill battle. Sometimes you just can't let certain things go.
Yeah, the die-hard glazed eyed believers are beyond reach. Those I know rational thought will never reach, and not so much concerned about them unless they make themselves a threat to the rest of us, and we should deal with them whenever they do pose a threat. But those in their faith that have questions, and this one criminal event may have shaken a few out of their trance of God, those are the ones I want to focus on. So we must keep making our arguments of pointing out that which does not make sense.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."--Thomas Jefferson
