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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 16, 2015 at 1:11 am
Is it coincidental that belief in any flavour of God ends in violence?
It is the same God is it not?
I'm confused. Is it the metaphorical interpretation causing the violence or the literal?
Pick one....any one....
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 16, 2015 at 1:58 am
(July 16, 2015 at 1:11 am)ignoramus Wrote: Is it coincidental that belief in any flavour of God ends in violence?
It is the same God is it not?
I'm confused. Is it the metaphorical interpretation causing the violence or the literal?
Pick one....any one....
A literal belief of the bible would logically lead to violence.
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 16, 2015 at 2:39 am
That is what scares me the most about Christianity and Islam. While the oral myth continues that these books are somehow the word of God and should be followed, we live in danger of people simply acting on that. Nice theists edit these books in their minds, but the books stay the same and so does the oral myth.
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 16, 2015 at 4:36 pm
I would have to say no.
I do get angry with religions and what some of their adherents get up to, but I'm certainly not angry with the deity that I don't believe in (despite contradictory claims made by theists).
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 16, 2015 at 7:01 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 7:05 pm by Salacious B. Crumb.)
I don't see how that's possible, so...No.
I draw conclusions based on reality regarding the existence of god. From those conclusions, I don't believe in one. I'd say that this god is a piece of shit, if it does exist. To me, to be angry with something, you'd have to believe in its existence. I don't get furious at invisible centaurs from planet Kolob, because someone broke into my house and stole my T.V.
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RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 18, 2015 at 1:41 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2015 at 1:45 pm by IanHulett.)
Well, I guess you can say I hate God in the same way I hate voldemort from Harry Potter, or the White Witch from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, or Bowser from Super Mario World. But definitely not in the same way I hate someone like Pat Robertson or Stephen Anderson, because they, unfortunately, actually exist.
But I think hating God like I hate Pat Robertson would make me a Theist, not an atheist. It's self-contradictory IMO.
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