A Pondering of the Peculiar (4)

[Sayre]

And the demand that such an "abomination" should result in death...? You don't think that inspires a lot of homophobes in their hatred...?

I think they, wrongly, get their inspiration from the bible. I just don't agree that the bible teaches to be a homephobe. It doesn't.

 

[GenemZ]

No, you could always admit that you have not read the Bible and I could site the appropriate verse.

Same tactic... different subject.

 

[GenemZ]

Except that good and evil are more subjective than most people would like to acknowledge.

Why even have a subjective concept of good and evil? Why the need to?

 

[GenemZ]

Men who love god... It isn't like we hate god.

Then, why can't God draw you?

John 6:44

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,
and I will raise them up at the last day."

​

You can not find God by empirical evidence. You find God by how you choose when he unawares to you, influences your thoughts with ideas that you choose to accept or reject. Freedom. For you have no idea its God. Its simply a matter of desiring what's good, or choosing evil instead in what you choose to think. No pressure. One must truly want the good that He is. If not... your free to not want it. God does not bribe, He draws.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I did not know atheists were also mind readers. Quite presumptuous and judgmental, too. Don't balk when God judges if you think its OK to do so yourself.

The judgement is based upon dad's ignorance of the Bible.

One serious question:

How could a mythical being judge me?

 

[Subduction Zone]

Do you fear sleeping with your mother? Is it because its unknown?

Really? You do know that you stepped way over the line there, don't you?

 

[GenemZ]

Actually, I can see why people like dad would have a fear of books.....they tend to contain KNOWLEDGE....!

God is all knowledge. He created knowledge. You fear God in a wrong way. God reads you like a book.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Then, why can't God draw you?

Perhaps because he is mythical?

 

[GenemZ]

Yes, and it's about time we started killing witches again....right?

We? ..... Trying to recruit?

 

[Subduction Zone]

God is all knowledge. He created knowledge. You fear God in a wrong way. God reads you like a book.

Wrong again. We are not the ones that hate. We might laugh. How can you be afraid of something that does not exist?

 

[Sayre]

Yep, it is fun twitting Christians with their own ignorance.

Like shooting fish in a barrel.

I'm going to bookmark this for next time you comment about never insulting theists or lumping us all together .

 

[Sayre]

Really? You do know that you stepped way over the line there, don't you?

The same way that joking about your mother is over the line, joking about God being a sky fairy is over the line for us too. I hope you realise that?

 

[Subduction Zone]

I'm going to bookmark this for next time you comment about never insulting theists or lumping us all together .

Dang! You are right and you got me. I have let dad and genez get my goat a bit and I made a mistake.

I am sorry for lumping you with them. Mea Culpa.

I was too lazy and should have said literalists.

I hope I won't do it again.

 

[dad]

Modest, but honest. Two traits that you would behoove you to cultivate. Especially the latter.

Right, how few could aspire to your level of greatness?

 

[Sayre]

Forgiven. And you know I slip up all the time myself - sorry. I am trying (it's hard) to not lump all atheists together. Sometimes it is just shorthand.

 

[GenemZ]

Wrong. Jesus supposedly demanded that disobedient children should be put to death....

Jesus? Where is that to be found in the Gospels?

 

[Subduction Zone]

The same way that joking about your mother is over the line, joking about God being a sky fairy is over the line for us too. I hope you realise that?

But I haven't used that term for a long time, if I ever have.

Pointing out that God may be mythical should not be over the line. Putting God down by calling him a "sky fairy" could be. No, I take that back, it would be.

 

[dad]

Men who love god... It isn't like we hate god.

But the ****phobia word can be used for believers as well as more vile and sinister things.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Forgiven. And you know I slip up all the time myself - sorry. I am trying (it's hard) to not lump all atheists together. Sometimes it is just shorthand.

I understand and agree.

Even though I may seem to be awesome to dad, I still do have my faults.

 

[dad]

Whatever. Doesn't change the fact that you're an intolerant homophobe which was the point of this exchange. Off you go now.

People that realize God's position are enlightened and informed actually.