On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote:
>God loved the believers and hated the nonbelievers, at least that's what > the Bible tells us. > Yes that's what the Bible says, it says that a omnipotent omniscient being is pretending that He does not exist and He hates anyone that He has been successful at fooling and will torture that person as much as He can for a infinite number of years. But he loves you. It's easy to see why a human would push that load of crap because it gives influence over others, and its easy to see why they want it taught to the very young, at that age anything said by a authority figure bypasses the critical thinking areas of the brain and directly becomes a axiom, which he will eventually pass on to his children someday; trying to peddle that horseshit to a adult for the first time would never fly. The brain just works differently when we're very young, its much easier to learn a language and we believe everything we're told. Most adults don't believe in Santa Claus even though they once did because they were told by their parents when they were still quite young that he didn't exist, if they waited until they were 17 to be informed it would be too late and they wouldn't have believed them because " Santa Claus exists" would have already have become fixed as a axiom that cannot be questioned. And we'd be living in a world were most adults believed in Santa Claus and were dreaming up all sorts of ingenious excuses why we can never manage to detect him or his workshop at the north pole. What I don't understand, because it seems so out of character, is if God does exist why He would place belief, in particular the belief in something when there is absolutely no reason for doing so, as the ultimate virtue. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
