• staxofmax
    +3

    What's fascinating to me is not so much their unshakable belief in God, its that it never occurs to anyone that even if God exists, there is a real possibility that he's an unreliable narrator. If his perfection is so absolute, what's with all the self promotion?

    • spaceghoti
      +3

      Well, he's got a plan. He can't just make us follow his plan, of course, because of "free will." But he wants us to know this plan and it's so important that he didn't communicate this plan to people who developed writing and had wide influence but instead made sure that an isolationist tribe of nomads heard it and were bullied into following it (punished whenever they strayed) until finally, thousands of years later, it could culminate into events that would take another thousand years or more to spread out to the rest of the globe.

      And if this doesn't make sense, that's okay. He has "mysterious ways."

      • staxofmax
        +2

        What possible plan could he have that would be derailed by homosex?

        • spaceghoti (edited 8 years ago)
          +2

          Whether or not we choose to condemn ourselves, apparently. The latest apologetic I'm hearing is that it's okay to be gay or otherwise attracted to the same gender. What's not okay is to act on it. Even though this is refuted by Jesus' introduction of thought crimes.

          “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

        • staxofmax
          +2
          @spaceghoti -

          Sometimes I wonder that if the biblical literalist theory of reality is the correct one, if hell would not be preferable to heaven. Probably better company down there.

        • spaceghoti
          +2
          @staxofmax -

          I don't know, literal Biblical verses paint Hell as a literal place of eternal torture. But as Twain put it, go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

        • staxofmax
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          @spaceghoti -

          And again, it's God that tells us "hell is bad" in his book, but he could be lying to further his agenda.

          How hilarious would it be if Lucifer is God, and he wrote the Bible as a test to weed out the assholes?