What do you believe in? I ask this question because I'm getting the impression you believe that your god is a god who judges no one; he accepts all into his loving arms no matter what they do or believe. If this is true, the only problem with this line of thinking is this god only exists in your mind.
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If this is true, the only problem with this line of thinking is this god only exists in your mind.
Really? What a coincidence. Yours does too.
"I'm getting the impression you believe that your god is a god who judges no one; he accepts all into his loving arms no matter what they do or believe.”
That is what an OMNIBENEVOLENT god would do, no? NOTHING is more important to such a being than to minimize suffering. Infinite suffering would offend that being. And, really, what crimes on this infinitessimal speck, committed during an eyeblink, would really matter to an infinite being with an eternal perspective?
Sure, someone being an atheist hurts YOU, because your perspective is finite. Your HOPE is eternal, but your outlook is pretty self-centered. People hurt YOU by disagreeing with or ignoring you, and you seethe, and want them boiled in sulfer for eterna pain, but this is God’s judgment, isn’t it?
And you cannot STAND the idea that your enemies might not be punished until you’re satisfied with their pain. Because in your mind, god is your bouncer, hitting all the people you hate.
“What do you believe in?”
I believe in the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
“I ask this question because I'm getting the impression you believe that your god is a god who judges no one; he accepts all into his loving arms no matter what they do or believe.”
Well, see, when I was growing up, God was described to me as omnibenevolent.
And, unlike everyone else in my graduating class, I looked the word up.
An omnibenevolent God would value NOTHING more highly than minimizing suffering. This trait is not compatible with any idea of ‘hell.’
“If this is true, the only problem with this line of thinking is this god only exists in your mind.”
Sadly, everyone seems to think that.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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