(06-12-2023, 03:00 PM)Freija Wrote:(06-12-2023, 01:23 PM)Snarl Wrote:(06-11-2023, 05:57 PM)Freija Wrote: What's the worry? It's all just fiction anyway.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. -Romans
Wait. Which god and why is he such a wrathful authoritarian dickhead? Sorry man but mythology and sky-fairies just don't do it for me. Never has and never will.
Whatever though, to each their own. Believe in what makes you happy or brings you comfort. Just don't try to impose your beliefs or gods on me and we'll all get along fine.
As somewhat of an anti-theist, I would probably lean toward secular humanism more than anything but even that implies a belief of sorts and I simply can't be bothered.
Thanks.
The heathen infidel
One should not confuse a wrathful, authoritarian dickhead deity with it's wrathful, authoritarian dickhead acolytes. That's a huge assumption and confusion amongst the anti-christian crowd. They have never met a deity, and so their assumptions must necessarily fall on the so-called adherents of that deity. That's the only source they have for their presuppositions and "insights" into the deity.
Further compounding the problem is that a vast majority of the so-called adherents have also never met a deity, despite their claims otherwise. Those folks either just want to belong to a club, OR they see power being gathered to the club, and want their share of that. Either way, they tend to project a false impression, and that impression rarely ever falls to the adherents. Instead, it goes straight to the top, and is the impression given of their deity.
For that reason, those people tend to alienate more people from their god than they draw to it.
I don't presume to write policy for any god or gods, but I sure do like watching the monkeys under their umbrella throw shit at each other when others do. It's entertaining.
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