XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.atheism   
   From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Jonathan  wrote:   
   >On 1/29/2021 12:06 PM, Dreamer In Colore wrote:   
      
   >>"When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit,   
   >>you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false   
   >>promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. No   
   >>contest. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story   
   >>ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced   
   >>people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who   
   >>watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And   
   >>the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does   
   >>not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things,   
   >>he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning   
   >>and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and   
   >>suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and   
   >>ever 'til the end of time. But He loves you!"   
      
   >>George Carlin, Dec 23 2005   
      
   >Honestly, you get your opinions on the nature of existence   
   >from George Carlin?   
      
   Dude: Do you understand what a comedian does for a living?   
      
   >Mainstream religious philosophy does NOT hold there's an   
   >invisible man out there waving a magic wand.   
      
   ghod isn't a man of any kind. The guy with the beard is Zeus.   
      
   >That's what is taught to children and others that can't handle   
   >anything more than simple stories.   
      
   Maybe adults who can't handle child raising shouldn't have kids.   
      
   >Only those that have never read a single line of religious   
   >philosophy could believe that's the definition of God.   
   >And those that haven't read a single line of religious   
   >philosophy are hardly capable of rendering an intelligent   
   >criticism of religious beliefs.   
      
   Similarly, if you are entirely unfamiliar with the work of comedians,   
   you should sit on your hands, too, and not criticize.   
      
   >Can you relate, say, how the Catholic Church defines God?   
      
   Not a Christian here, but the Catholic Church believes itself to be   
   sacred, setting itself up as an intermediary between the congregant and   
   ghod. Isn't there a word for that?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)