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The ethics of worship
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  RE: The ethics of worship
September 14, 2020 at 3:43 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2020 at 3:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Did noah have all the children on the magic boat too?
At any rate, claims of moral subjectivity which arise as a consequence of excusing your god for evil are unlikely to sway very many people.
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!
Jesus is like Pinocchio. He's the bastard son of a carpenter. And a liar. And he wishes he was real.
When you have to claim a world with no children to make your narrative not make God look bad....
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
 (September 14, 2020 at 3:43 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Did noah have all the children on the magic boat too? I disagree on the sentiment of persuasion. People, in my experience, will be swayed more by actions than an equal sentiment put into words. It does not matter, in this regard, whatever you say - if they do not correlate into action. The same way we use the most common fallacy of attributing sufficient correlation between two events with causing a preceding event with a following one, without even using some sort of proof of mechanism to demonstrate this. In the case of theists, I think it's due to a deficiency in critical thinking. Especially so in examining their own faith. I don't know where this deficiency, which I think is present, comes from but I speculate it's a result of indoctrination, particularly of surrendering their ability to reason and trusting an authority figure to decide for them (Sunday school teacher, priest, bishop, pope) on what to think. The result is that no matter the behavior recorded by 'holy' texts of their god, they're unable to determine if it is evil or not. I know this intimately, from when I still believed in a god of the Christian conviction. But really, it's a question of efficiency of persuasion. So far, the leading apologists are so convinced of their tactic that they're able to lie to themselves, thanks to compartmentalization. Yet, I wouldn't be surprised by the amount of theist authority figures who realized they were in error, but resorted to grifting thanks to the human capital, power & wealth their position grants them. 
What fresh hell can this be? - Dorothy Parker
(September 15, 2020 at 3:32 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(September 15, 2020 at 5:49 am)Nihilist Virus Wrote: Your poor English is too difficult to read and is not worth the effort or the investment of time. Lmao.
Jesus is like Pinocchio. He's the bastard son of a carpenter. And a liar. And he wishes he was real.
(September 14, 2020 at 3:43 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Did noah have all the children on the magic boat too? what children??? the bible never mentions them/any at the time of the flood. that is an atheist add on. |
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