Tony Robinson turned up a prodigous crew of swine tonight in the tediously, but understandably, named "The Doomsday Code". This was all about the Book of Revelation, and the people, some of them hugely influential, who believe in a "literal" truth derived from it, and why we should hate them, fear them, and throw mud and poo at them.
One delightful preacher was deriding those who would believe in evolution, when all the time there was a God telling them that he had had his son tortured to death for them, and they only had to take Him into their hearts, so it was their own fault they were going to BURN and have their livers drawn out and there was going to be a river of blood up to HERE, wow, and isn't God infinitely merciful. Another one, or it might have been the same one, condensed this unconscious irony in beautifully compact form; it ran along the lines of "all you (atheists and agnostics) had to do was accept my grace and love and infinite mercy, but you didn't and so you're fucked forever!" (Without the swearing and probably more elegantly put.)
And so, for the morally inept amongst you, here it is. Any creature which defined the worth of a human being by their attitude towards that creature, rather than by how they behave towards other human beings, would be an egotistical excrescence, even if it did make them in the first place. Anyone with the remotest approximation of a moral sense would have a duty to oppose it.
And that's just one of the reasons why if God existed He, She, or It would be a scumbag of, ahem, biblical proportions. Good job there's no sensible reason to do so, isn't it.
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I disagree, I think that God (should he / she / it exist within the exclusive Christian definition) is probably rubing his hands with glee at the large numbers of Christians who are going to spend the rest of eternity with a large burning spike up their arse. Hello America!
In the same way that just because that Jesus fellow waffled on about peace and love and not fucking each other over, not to mention sticking it to the man, doesn't mean the old hippy's to blame for all the cunts who've used an inherently decent message for their own selfish purposes.
Faith is one thing, unfortunately religion is quite another.
It's a case of experience vs. institution, as in:
"FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what one is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."
- Ambrose Bierce
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