Posted on 12/16/2011 7:32:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“The amazing thing isn’t that there’s only one way to salvation. the amazing thing is that God made a way at all.”—James MacDonald
So, you believe the God of the Bible judges people with less insight into their personal beliefs than the DMV?
Almighty God, spare your idiot son. Because if you'll spare him, maybe you'll find a reason to spare me. Amen.
Blah, blah, blah...500 years ago this, 500 years ago that...this atheist meme that crusades and witch burnings matter more than people getting killed right now for atheism in places like China or tens of milliosn getting killed for it last century, the meme where any reasonable person can see the vast difference between Pol Pot and Stephen Hawking but there’s no real difference between Augustine and Fred Phelps or C. S. Lewis and Osama bin Laden is just as much a bunch of gapped-tooth bigotry as any Westboro Baptist Church diatribe. Get over yourselves.
Says who? Even if religion is all bunk, you don't know that. Interesting how people of science and reason are as certain about things that happened 200,000 years before their birth as any Southern Baptist preacher is about the Garden of Eden.
You would be correct in that.
There is some dust. Unconscious dust! What right has God to change that unconscious dust into a human being, when he knows that human being will sin; when he knows that human being will suffer eternal agony? Why not leave him in the unconscious dust? What right has an infinite God to add to the sum of human agony?
Suppose I knew that I could change that piece of furniture into a living, sentient human being, and I knew that that being would suffer untold agony forever. If I did it, I would be a fiend.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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