Heaven Watches With Folded Arms
Peter T.
location: New Hampshire
listening to: Too much of everything!
registered: 1999.05.20
posts: 3017
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To its credit, science, modernity, and the free exchange of ideas have largely curtailed Christianity's barbaric
past ways. Here's hoping that Islam will similarly reform, but it's going to be a long, bloody struggle. I'd say that the fear of death as well as living through uncertain, and often utterly miserable, soul-crushing
times draw human beings to religion. I don't know if there is a god, but if there is, he permits suffering on an
incomprehensible scale, nor does he mind that competing religions have been slaughtering each other in his
name for centuries. And given what we've read of his omniscience, he would have known it was going to
happen. And as for the free will argument, the more I read, the less I believe we have it.I wish all monotheists would ponder this short speech from Christopher Hitchens.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMo927DZmgPeter T.
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To its credit, science, modernity, and the free exchange of ideas have largely curtailed Christianity's barbaric
past ways. Here's hoping that Islam will similarly reform, but it's going to be a long, bloody struggle. I'd say that the fear of death as well as living through uncertain, and often utterly miserable, soul-crushing
times draw human beings to religion. I don't know if there is a god, but if there is, he permits suffering on an
incomprehensible scale, nor does he mind that competing religions have been slaughtering each other in his
name for centuries. And given what we've read of his omniscience, he would have known it was going to
happen. And as for the free will argument, the more I read, the less I believe we have it.I wish all monotheists would ponder this short speech from Christopher Hitchens.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMo927DZmgPeter T.
