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To: winstonchurchill
When backed into a corner, those lacking a response reply with sarcasm.

Give it another try.

46 posted on 06/17/2002 1:21:34 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
DE: Why are you so afraid to give God his due? Of course God was the creator of sin and evil.

WC: I wonder if all your co-religionists here agree with you, ma'am? I would be delighted to hear a chorus of the 'enlightened' on your point.

DE: When backed into a corner, those lacking a response reply with sarcasm.

Oh, Ma'am, no sarcasm, merely an inquiry. But your co-religionists seem to be friends of yours only on sunny days. I doubt many will join you on your lonely limb.

Theologians have wrestled for millenia to explain why a good God is NOT the source of evil. So, now, you proudly relate that your construct god is the author and finisher of every rape, torture and murder in the history of man, of Stalin, of Pol Pot, of the 100 million killed by communism in the last century? Of the little children suffering with painful diseases? Of the millions in the history of the world who have been unjustly tortured, killed and multilated? And, why? To teach the innocent "a lesson?" To show his calvinist "glory"? If that's giving your Calvinist god 'his due,' I'm very glad I don't know him.

One is so staggered by the enormity of your presumption, it is hard to know where to start. What is the greatest story (apart from Christ Himself) of unjust evil in the Bible? Job?

So, what is Job? Another example of God just 'funnin' us? Where Scripture has to be turned upside down and re-written into a deception so your construct can be 'right'? I suppose it really wasn't Satan doing all those things (Job 1:12, passim), it was your tinhorn calvinist god getting his sado-masochistic jollies and just saying it was Satan? Kind of "evil under a nom de'plum?"

Now, I presume you think Jesus the Son of God. Does it trouble you not at all that, in giving us the fullest and most accurate picture of the Nature of God ever known to mankind, He did not ever 'show His other side' -- you know, the good ol' sin and evil, construct god side? You know, torture and kill a million or two to demonstrate His glory? Maybe that part got ripped out of my Bible.

Frankly, I've never looked for it, because I would normally care less, but since you value Calvin above the Scripture: Does even good ol' construct Johnny ever claim that God is the source of all sin and evil? My impression is that he tried like the Devil (pun intended) to avoid the implications of his cruel 'doctrines'. But you have removed the deception. You revel in the sin and evil your calvinist god created, is that it?

And you were so blotted as to think my challenge to your co-religionists was "sarcasm". And your 'doctorate,' my dear, is in what? New age crystals?

47 posted on 06/17/2002 4:47:01 PM PDT by winstonchurchill
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