With the coming of the New Year I'm making some lifestyle changes including an overhaul of what I do with my freetime...which means that I will not be logging into Religious Forums anymore.
It's been fun, and educational...but the time I spend on this site can of course be used towards other...
No, those good things are irrelevant. By that reasoning I could say Hitler wasn't a bad person...just look at how he helped Germany's economy while he was killing the Jews.
Doesn't matter. He killed innocent children, adults, and even animals (for whatever reason). The end result...leading his...
Sure, why not? Evil is capable of anything...and who is to say you will actually get what you "pay" for? My point is that interspersed within these good things we find a great deal of bad things (like many of the laws of the OT)--advocated by God--which most of us in modern times will agree are...
Actually yes, religious people are more likely to commit crimes. There have been studies. We're going slightly off topic, but here's one:
I would count this as support that The Bible is more likely inspired by an Evil Deity.
Does this also imply that the human measure of morality does not apply to God? If that is the case (as in...we cannot tell based on our morality whether or not God is in fact moral or immoral...or amoral) how then can you be sure he isn't evil?
Or, if our morality DOES apply to God, then how...
So a superbeing with infinite power at his disposal was unable to come up with a better (i.e. kinder) way of demonstrating his authority other than killing infants? I suppose creating giant flaming words in the sky that said "REPENT!" was out of the question?
God sounds like a fair and just...
Um, no, that's called child abuse. Good parents do not "beat the crap out of" their kids.
We apparently have VERY different fathers. Nevertheless, one can discipline without abuse, and certainly without the level of punishment that the OT God was fond of.
Do you do good only so that you may...
Just out of curiosity, what is your criteria when determining whether or not someone is "kind"?
Consider a few of God's random acts of "kindness":
Exodus 12 - And at midnight Yahweh struck down all the first-born in Egypt from the first-born of Pharaoh, heir to his throne, to the first-born...
Are you sure the UK doesn't want our trailer trash? They're quite useful for boosting your television talk show ratings...both as an audience and as guests.
It's funny really. They're testing the machines "just in case" they're needed? I don't think the government is stupid enough to start drafting people for Bush's little money war. If they did, I think they would find the opposition overwhelming. This brings up the question though...what would you...
...was to convince the world that the Bible was not his own work.
Let's say you believe in a sentient Evil Being, and a sentient Good Being who more or less compete for control of the universe (like God and Satan in common terms).
Is it not highly likely that the Evil Being would have...
Sooo...all the answers were inside you? Is that how you learned the TRUTH whatever you deem that to be? In other words you are entirely self-taught and have no need of books (nor have you ever)...am I reading you right? "The answers are all inside" me? Interesting...I should put myself online as...
You've heard it perhaps but you, like my past self, seem to have missed the point. We're talking about probablility. As Godlike in his astonishing auto-enlightenment pointed out, you can read more detail on the matter in Dawkin's book "The God Delusion".
That's good...better than leaning toward...