I agree about Rick…
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It’s Divine Water, made from the Tears of the Almighty because Nasty Atheists deny Baby Jesus.
Or judging from the last line, Rick’s just plain old bat-shit crazy.
]]>One more thing I wanted to comment on: this quote “I Just Wanted All Of You To Know All Of You Are Dead Wrong…”
Really? No one else knows the answer for sure, but this one person knows the answer? Has some deeper wisdom? Reminds me of conspiracy theorists…
]]>We recently wrote a piece on The Great Flood. This particular story doesn’t cover the ark itself, the animals or Noah. Rather it focuses on the Flood and if the story depicted in the Bible is feasible on this planet.
Always interested in reading more about Noah’s Ark, if you have anything else…
]]>Rick, however, does sound hilarious. I’d like to take him drinking.
@TC: holy crap! I never realised that christians made up so much shit to justify their fancy for their “good” god. That’s some serious brain twisting going on there.
]]>Okay – do you really want the quick lowdown on the three wills of God?
First: God’s Perfect Will (it’s a Christian concept, so I’ll Capitalize It like They Do 😈 ) – this is God’s Plan A, which is when everybody does exactly what He always Wanted Them to Do in the First Place. No Sins or Mistakes.
Second: God’s Permissive Will – this is what happens when Human Free Will enters the picture. Humans usually find ways to deviate from Perfect Plan A, so this is Plan B. It’s not what God Would Have Chosen, but He’ll Find A Way to make things work out for The Best.
Third: God’s Conditional Will – this is tied to laws of nature. These have been established by God and He doesn’t usually interfere with their operation, except when He does (those cases are known as Miracles). So, for example, the airplane door blows open and the passenger sitting right there gets sucked out, plummets 30,000 feet to the ground and dies. Since God never wills for His Children to suffer, this can’t be an example of His Perfect Will. Since it’s probable that the Passenger did not plan to Get Sucked Out and Dropped to the Ground, this isn’t God’s Permissive Will either. Therefore, since certain physical laws (gravity and the like) are at play, this tragedy is an example of Conditional Will: the Unlucky Passenger is subject to the Same Physical Laws as the Rest of the Universe. God Cannot Be Blamed for allowing the system He Created to operate according to the Rules He Established.
The upshot of all this is the Standard Christian Position: God is Not Responsible When Shit Happens, but He’s Always to Be Praised When Good Things Happen. I gotta get me a gig like that. 😆
]]>What I don’t understand is how he gets the conclusion that a God can do whatever he pleases. Isn’t that what fundamentalists say is the trouble with atheists? Would that make God an atheist?
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