tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post848887809264263340..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: Searching for the ultimateGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-84016314437613085962014-10-17T15:34:11.583-07:002014-10-17T15:34:11.583-07:00FREE WILL UNTIL YOU PISS OFF GOD, THEN HE SMITES Y...FREE WILL UNTIL YOU PISS OFF GOD, THEN HE SMITES YOU...... IS NOT FREE WILL.<br /><br />(Sorry for yelling)<br /><br />Preaching guilt and fear is more effective than I wish it was. Me? It sends me running the opposite direction as fast as my legs will take me. This is NOT a God of love. I'd rather go to hell and keep my dignity.<br /><br />Everything. Literally everything macro (and negative) that happens to humanity is a desperate attempt to keep religion relevant by ascribing it's occurrence to an act of God, despite the fact that God doesn't meddle in the affairs of humans.<br /><br />It chaps my ass when a cereal killer can kill 50 people and "The lord did not intervene because we are granted free will to sin," but Ebola is "punishment by God as retribution for our sins."Hontseur Thotshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10799765178908406877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-60318501910981122602014-10-17T06:20:46.292-07:002014-10-17T06:20:46.292-07:00Yeh, there is always fine print along the lines of...Yeh, there is always fine print along the lines of, "If it's not that, it's going to be something else".<br />Just to keep the basic doom's day shit (and Christianity started as another doom's day cult) with a constant future day of judgement and an eternal price of suffering for the 'wicked'. Woodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16756590870917752187noreply@blogger.com