Reply To: Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry
@everyone
To put all of this fundamentalist talk to rest and nit picking about biblical lines, the horrors of the Church and it’s past, child raping priests, woman hating, fag hating, slavery approving, light thought control, brutal thought policing religion with a God with impossible qualities who never shows up and says hi…
…these are not really good reasons to reject the claim God exists. The Bible is a long rant with alternating interesting stories with scarry and bizzare cruelty. That doesn’t mean there is no God. The Church could have taken part in a never ever ending stream of unthinkable abuse…that doesn’t mean there is no God. The Church could systematically oppress anyone who isn’t a priest and God might still exist. Even if God had a gazillion conflicting logically impossible qualities this still isn’t close to enough to dismiss it. This can go on and on and on.
As Raymond Tallis put it…the reason why we should reject the argument that God exists…is because the very idea as presented to us is so preposterous, so ridiculous, so incredibly stupid and moronic that it should not be taken seriously for even a moment. Should we pay any attention to moronic preposterous claims? No…not when the evidence is absent. The evidence wouldn’t stand up to even the most relaxed standards of scholarly study (outside of a theology department or literary theory den). Forget the murder and oppression and torture and thought crimes and slavery and blood and more blood (as arguments again)…and especially moronic terms like “fundamentalists”. The propostericity of sky-god-claims and the pitiful evidence given is sufficient.
