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- From: max@admin.mport.COM (Max)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: -REAL- Christians dont know god is dead
- Message-ID: <2169@admin.mport.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:06:51 GMT
- References: <01050133.ohmnd7@distant.uucp> <1993Jan25.180851.1@stsci.edu> <2166@admin.mport.COM> <C1HGp1.JMH@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
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- sschaff@roc.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Stephen F. Schaffner) writes:
-
- >In article <2166@admin.mport.COM>, max@admin.mport.COM (Max) writes:
- >|> zellner@stsci.edu writes:
-
- >|> >Of course he's arbitrary. He's God, and he's not in the slightest accountable
- >|> >to us for his laws of good and evil, any more than he is accountable for to us
- >|> >for the way he made the universe or the laws of physics. And we don't "make
- >|> >god" anything; he made us, and everything else too.
- >|>
- >|> ben claimes that its not just a belief in god, it "TRUE".
-
- >Well (assuming, as you say, that Ben does indeed believe in God) of course he
- >thinks his belief is true -- what other meaning could "belief" have in this
- >context?
-
- despite the fairly pooor editing you have done here, the original question
- asks why should a non believer in god believe that homosexuality is a sin.
- with some things in this area of belief, a non believer can understand the
- prohibition, in this case, the reason is unclear. BUT you have seen fit to
- edit out the question at hand. no wonder you cant understand the
- interaction here.
-
- >|> ah, the cruxt! ben makes a huge mistake in reason: if i dont believe in
- >|> gravity, do things fall when i drop them? yes, of course, hell, even a flat
- >|> earther can see that! BUT if i dont believe in god, my transgression against
- >|> gods laws have no effect on me! no god=no hell! yay!
- >|>
- >|> are you following this ben? god is just a beleif system, not a reflection
- >|> of reality (if you believe in that...).
-
- >Is it fair to say that your argument here is "You believe in God; I don't"?
- >Obviously you think he's wrong, and he thinks you're wrong (so do I, but
- >that's beside the point), but where's the "huge mistake in reason"?
-
- dear stephen, you again have not read the original post. here, ill help you
- with this one:
-
- 1) ed askes why a nonbeliever in god should tolerate the
- god-belivers intolerance toward homosexuality.
-
- 2) ben answers that if you believe in god you need no reason.
-
- 3) i then point out that the question asks for an earthly reason. bens
- comparison of heaven to gravity is a little misplaced, as a nonbeliever in
- gravity is still affected by gravity (try it sometime) but a nonbeliever in
- god is not affected by heaven. i suspect that here is where you gto
- confused.
-
- it is not an argument of "you believe in god: i dont", but that was a good
- guess :-)
-
- >[...]
-
- >|> but i guess that THIS is really really the cruxt of the debate. it god ours
- >|> or are we his. ho ho.
- >|>
- >|> actually, i spoke to god the other day, and he said
- >|> to me that he was actualy working for the cia, and that he was on our side.
- >|>
- >|> silly me, and i thought he was dead. :-)
-
- >I'm having some trouble following your train of thought here. . .
-
- you seem to be having that problem in general.
-
- >|> if any of the above conditions will keep us out of his blessings, then what
- >|> happans if you dont believe in the blessings in the first place? nothing.
-
- >Hmm, sounds like you're not in a position to determine whether the
- >blessings exist, then: either they don't exist and you haven't got them,
- >or they do exist and you haven't got them.
-
- ah, spoken like a true believer. perhaps the blessing of this world have been
- bestowed upon us by virtue of our being here today, and are not waiting in
- a future in heaven.
-
- the above perspective would require a better reason to frown upon
- homosexuality than " >|> >Of course he's arbitrary. He's God, and he's
- not in the slightest accountable..."
-
- >Now if I could just remember what this is doing on sci.skeptic . . .
-
- heh, good luck. read first, then edit.
-
- >Steve Schaffner sschaff@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
-
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