On May 8, Puppet_Sock <puppet_s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > =A0 1) Christ died for your sins.
> > > =A0 2) If you do not sin, Christ died in vain.
> > > =A0 3) Get on with it.
>
> > And don't forget: without the Jooos, =A0Jesus
> > would have lived to ripe old age, no
> > crucifixion, no salvation! =A0Thank God
> > for those cursed rabbis and their plotting!
>
> You give the Roman Empire insufficient credit.
Pilate had no beef with Jesus, who was a spiritual
sort - "render unto Caesar..." - it was the rabbis
who felt threatened, and lobbied for Jesus' execution.
And so we are saved!
> > > Yahweh is singularly disinterested in human suffering
>
> > "uninterested"
>
> Nope. Unc got it right.
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disinterested
That dictionary is questionable. By custom, the
words are not synonymous.
> > > In the whole of human
> > > history across the entire planet not one deity has volunteered
> > > Novocain. =A0It is a telling omission.
>
> > Why?
>
> Deities supposedly know how to do a lot of stuff. Novocain is
> a fairly simple thing to create if you know how.
I don't. How?
> If deities exist (other than as silly fantasies of pathological
> minds) and if they really are smarter than the humans who
> made them up, then they should surely know enough to
> know how to relieve pain. And if they had relieving suffering
> as part of their motive, they would have done so at some
> point in history.
>
> They never did.
>
> So, either no deity ever had relieving suffering as part of
> its motive, or no deity ever existed other than as fantasy.
So you concede the possible existence of a Creator,
who does not interfere in natural events; the blind
watchmaker. That is the faitheists' posiition: man
has free will, to make of this world as we please,
for good or ill.
--
Rich
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