XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism   
   From: gudloos@yahoo.com   
      
   Rick wrote:   
   > thomas p. wrote:   
   >> "Rick"  skrev i   
   >> meddelelsen   
   >> news:hme1an$t02$2@news.eternal-september.org...   
   >>> St. Jackanapes wrote:   
   >>> [one heck of long and rather well-written treatise]   
   >>> ...   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>> To try and argue that some invisible omnipotent being   
   >>>> was bored and lonely one day, so he created a race of   
   >>>> little people to amuse himself with. Little people   
   >>>> created in his image, but without his powers, that he   
   >>>> would visit in forms such as burning bushes or a   
   >>>> finger of lightening, all to instill terror and awe in   
   >>>> his little friends. An omnipotent being that was so fucking fickle,   
   >>>> mean   
   >>>> and sadistic that he had a perverse love of torturing   
   >>>> his favorite little pals - even the most loyal of them   
   >>>> all, by torturing them and slaying his family and   
   >>>> children. This deity even created another race of   
   >>>> little people - or did he? - they worshiped another   
   >>>> god, despite God telling his little pals that there   
   >>>> weren't any other gods. Obviously God created this   
   >>>> distinct race of little people just so his chosen   
   >>>> little pals could perform genocide and be as sick,   
   >>>> murderous, sadistic, hateful, and even baby killers   
   >>>> just like their creator and torturer, God.  Am I the only person on   
   >>>> this planet who sees the   
   >>>> Universe this way?   
   >>>   
   >>> You are not alone in that.   
   >>>   
   >>> But you do sound particularly angry and bitter about   
   >>> the god whom you deny exists yet to whom you attribute   
   >>> such vile intent.   
   >>   
   >> Do you really and truly believe that he was expressing   
   >> anger at a god?   
   >   
   > Not angry at god ("about god") just plain angry at all   
   > and sundry.   
   >   
   >> Why do theists always pretend that they do not   
   >> understand the concept usually called "for the sake of   
   >> argument"?   
   >   
   > I think I understand, but I'll try not to be defensive   
   > about it.   
   > Perhaps your point is that many people take things too   
   > seriously!   
      
   What an incredible clown you are.   
      
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