03-02-2016, 12:52 PM
(02-27-2016, 08:11 PM)RolloTheGreat Wrote:(02-26-2016, 09:36 PM)BoFox Wrote:(02-26-2016, 06:01 PM)RolloTheGreat Wrote: thinking we're "god lite" is the height of arrogance and folly.
Pun intended, bingo!
Many disagree with how religion should be, or even religion altogether after being unable to trust God. The slogan printed on all of US currency, "In God We Trust" no longer stands among the consensus - perhaps an alarming majority nowadays. It used to be tolerance of dissent in the public as to questioning God's existence. Now, it's a question of tolerating dissent in the public as to disagreeing with atheism.
If you were instructed by your company boss to do certain errands, and you refused because you thought that the boss wouldn't notice if he never checked on you - choosing to do your own thing instead, what do you think the boss would do when he found out? Fire you?
Life is increasingly brief as we get older. We know that if we do bad things, there tends to be more "hell" than not. Like, if you kill one guy every month in your town, do you think you could truly live a hell-free life? Hitler thought he could do whatever in his own territory, but nope.
Once again, whatever suits you, pal.
You talk a lot about killing people, rape, and genocide for a "Christian".
Just kidding.
You're missing my point about anthropomorphizing "god". I'm saying it's derogatory to "god" and what god would be like. (logically)
Your "running errands for the boss" is a perfect example of the phenomenon. People in ancient times that wrote the Bible spoke in terms the simple folk of the time could understand. "God is the father, we are his children, we must obey or be punished."
Compared to a being that exists outside of time, can create matter, create life, is omniscient the analogy of men and ants is probably closer to it. Ants aren't much like us and we wouldn't be much (if at all) like god.
If god possesses all of the qualities commonly ascribed, "jealousy" for sure is not among his character traits. What are you jealous of if you're the being to which none greater can be conceived/omnipotent/omniscient? Some fry cook worshipping Gonesh the elephant god over in India? LOL- yeah sure. "I control the very fabric of reality, but this darn fry cook worships that elephant god guy I burped out on Taco Tuesday! I will torture that fry cook for eternity! That will fix him and be an example to the rest!"
God would not have human traits and to say he does insults God.
Dang, I don't know.. What's for sure is that there is death. There is wrath among pretty much 99.9999% of us if any one of us commit all of the bad sins.
If the cavemen of 2000+ years ago were "wise" enough to pass on the "inspired" words of the commandments of God as to the guidelines to live a sin-free and loving life, they probably weren't that dumb? After all, they had bigger brains than we do today, literally:
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evol...ain-001446
(10,000 years, lol - warped chronology, but anyway..)
At least with all of their spare time, like the time that Leonardo DaVinci had with that bigger brain of his, he probably had access to some additional insight that we can hardly access today.


