Contents
- Introduction (Nov 17, 2008)
- Genesis 3: God screws up the world, blames man (Nov 24, 2008)
- Genesis 3: God punishes all mankind for the disobedience of two (Dec 8, 2008)
- Genesis 4: God lets a murderer off with a warning (Jan 13, 2009)
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Your table of contents says the entries were written in 2009. Unless you have a time machine, you have a couple of typos to fix.
I’m looking forward to reading this series.
Thanks,
Margaret
Oops — I guess I was in a time warp when I wrote that. Thanks!
Wrong tense there.. You mean that you WILL be in a time warp when you write that. :)
Actually, I said that just because I wanted you to say that, and I knew the future since I was in a time warp… (begin recursion)
I’m looking forward to this series and, with your permission and the appropriate acknowledgements, will be posting links to it on my own blog.
“Methaphysical Despotism”
A very strong moral argument against Creation comes (unintendedly) from the standard Christian saying “God has created you, so you are his property”.
If the implication stated thus was logically correct that would only mean that the very Creation is an idea in contradiction with our basic moral intuition that “Might does not make Right”.
For we would owe everything to the Omnipotent on the very basis that he has created us.
It could have been stated that he has right over our lives even without taking in slightest consideration any of his other qualities (for example the moral ones) except of his infinite Might.
The idea of Creation allows thus to deduce infinite Rights from infinite Might (which is morally not allowed).
And to call Might goodness, if it is only great enough (infinite).
That’s why Creation of persons is an unacceptable idea.
I still love the whole “They were disobedient because they didn’t even know the difference between good and evil” shtick that xtians try to pass off as logic…
I ran across your website in my own quest to understand a foundation I was taught since 3rd grade. I am curious to know how it feels at this point in your life? I too am trying to keep an open mind to all that I read and learn, hoping I will come to terms with my own thoughts and beliefs. It is a lonely course I feel I am headed down…
Daniel , yea! And lo , how Christinsanity urges people to accept God on the basis of the divine protection plan as love! And how can one love ones neighbor, when one enslaves her? The limited notion of love that that fanatic cult leader Yeshua advocated!
We should mock this superstition so as to upset Christians so much as to try to answer us, but then find out that we are right when they truly investigate their nonsense.
Moses’s Folly, Mohammed’s Lunacy, Smith’s Fraud, Mary’s Christian Nescience, Buddha’s Wrong Path, the Dao NonWay, Shinto Hooliganism, White’s Black magic, Jehovah’s Hallucinators
I understand that most Estonians and East Germans and Japanese are atheists and half of South Koreans are that.
The rationalist falllacy is to assume that with the rise of educational levels, superstition would go down, but so many just find a more refined way fo affriming their nonsense. Yet, as note in the previous paragraph, there is hope for our evagel of humanism, naturalism and rationalism to spread.
You caught on. God always leaves a trail no matter where it leads. The evidence for God the Fathers’ inabilities with humankind is in the first chapter of the Book of Job.
Lucifer, Gods’ son was severly punished in Heaven for an infraction which God the father caused in the first place. Lucifer was thrown down to earth without his body God was so angry at him.
Yet here God is in the first Chapter again pulling another stunt. He actually gives Lucifer
permission to go after a saved man and put him through such testing and trial the normal human
could not overcome.
It is only after JOB “sucks up” to God the Father does God the Father leave him alone. Did
Job serve him after that? Nope. Know why? Read the last chapter. Its an eye opener.
Only because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ do we have a world at all. It’s the New Testament
which rules. With Christ now on the throne things are better. . . we still have a long way to go.
You see — GOD THE FATHER IS STILL AT IT.
typos as noted evangel spell checker next time
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