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Greatest I am Member (Idle past 273 days) Posts: 1676 Joined: |
All the Gods. What man has created let no man credit to unworthy Gods.
Strange that your God hates everyone you do. This shows how your God was man made. No real self-respecting God would have man’s prejudices. Most of the Abrahamic religions of today are immoral and unjustified in their stances of vicarious redemption and their discrimination and denigration of women and gays. This is irrefutable. Christians justify discriminate and denigrate women and gays by saying that it is God’s will. He will rule over you. I think we should stop blaming imaginary Gods and step up to our own collective human guilt and shame, instead of passing on the blame to imaginary manmade Gods. It seems that we men want to discriminate and denigrate gays for our own male egos. Do you agree that it is men and not Gods who are discriminating against our own women and gays even as we lay the blame on God? RegardsDL
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Admin Director Posts: 12995 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
Thread copied here from the All the Gods. What man has created let no man credit to unworthy Gods. thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.
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subbie Member (Idle past 1254 days) Posts: 3509 Joined:
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Gods that are created in humanity's image display the same weaknesses of character that humanity does. Hardly a surprise.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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Diomedes Member Posts: 995 From: Central Florida, USA Joined:
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Gods that are created in humanity's image display the same weaknesses of character that humanity does. Hardly a surprise. Agree with subbie. If you look at the Greek pantheon of gods, it is one of the best windows into the nature of the human character. They were deceitful, power-hungry, vindictive, pious and self-righteous. A perfect foil and representation of what humans are like. And exactly what one would expect. They were created in our image, not the other way around.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2105 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge. Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1 "Multiculturalism" does not include the American culture. That is what it is against.
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Greatest I am Member (Idle past 273 days) Posts: 1676 Joined: |
True.
We have no other template to compare and that is why our Gods hate everyone we hate. RegardsDL
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Greatest I am Member (Idle past 273 days) Posts: 1676 Joined: |
Yet what they knew to be true, that all Gods were mythical, Christianity forgot when they stupidly began to read scriptures and myths literally.
Constantine wanted to be the next Man/God real bad and likely why he forced the Trinity concept down his churches throat. RegardsDL
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Greatest I am Member (Idle past 273 days) Posts: 1676 Joined: |
Coyote
A good quote. Thanks. RegardsDL
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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Greatest I am writes:
There are two separate issues there:
Do you agree that it is men and not Gods who are discriminating against our own women and gays even as we lay the blame on God?(If there are any gods)
We need to hold ourselves to a higher standard than the gods do.
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NoNukes Inactive Member
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Do you agree that it is men and not Gods who are discriminating against our own women and gays even as we lay the blame on God? There are a number of exceptions to the general rule. While Jesus did not oppose every evil of his day, he certainly does not seem to be the God the Jews would have chosen. And his description is of a matter who was far better man than most, if not all of us. I think we could make similar claims for Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha).
think we should stop blaming imaginary Gods and step up to our own collective human guilt and shame Stop blaming gods, imaginary or otherwise. Of course. But as for collective human guilt? No, I am not response for your screw ups. I have enough to handle bearing responsibility for what I've caused. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
Constantine wanted to be the next Man/God real bad and likely why he forced the Trinity concept down his churches throat. Explain the logic behind your statement. Constantine pushes a doctrine that there is only a single God, Yahweh. What does that leave for Constantine?Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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Greatest I am Member (Idle past 273 days) Posts: 1676 Joined: |
Ringo
I agree that our standard should be higher than the Gods on offer. Secular law has already set a higher bar. Thank all the mythical Gods for that. Strange that some in religion do not recognize better morals than what their Gods dish out. RegardsDL
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Greatest I am Member (Idle past 273 days) Posts: 1676 Joined: |
NoNukes
We are all responsible to each other. We all contribute to the status quo. You believe what you do due and are what you are due to those who reared you and what you learned on your own later. We are all responsible for what becomes of those we help rear and that includesthe peer pressure we exert upon each other. RegardsDL Edited by Greatest I am, : No reason given.
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Greatest I am Member (Idle past 273 days) Posts: 1676 Joined: |
NoNukes
Constantine, by putting the Trinity into Christianity, allowed a path for him to take to, as other emperors before him, to declare himself to be a God. His Victory Arch position shows this clearly I think. I can think of no other reason for his manipulation of the vote. http://www.simchajtv.com/...hristianity-selling-christianity RegardsDL Edited by Greatest I am, : No reason given.
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
Constantine, by putting the Trinity into Christianity, allowed a path for him to take to, as other emperors before him, to declare himself to be a God. I asked you how such a path was provided and your answer is just to repeat your assertion. Explain, in your own words, how the Trinity Doctrine provided an opening for Constantine to do what other emperors had done presumably without taking such a step.Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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