Or maybe i should just ask this one question,
do you believe that God favors freewill and why?

As you might remember I was debating the fact that God favors freewill as T.g Geko suggest,
not the fact that people are capable of bad things

Can I ask you since you are the expert here,
What damage is done when you eat a piece of fruit?

How evil was the fruit (or how good)?

Did the fruit resemble a Mr Potato head superman and Mr potato head lex luther and did they have fruity little battles?

If some one put the tree of knowledge in front of you what would you do,
A sit there and stare
b chop it down
C eat its fruit

Here’s a 5-minute course in not sounding like a fucking moron when it comes to mythology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimetheus_%28mythology%29

Local First Nations I study have stories that are almost identical in message and sybolism, usually involving the crow, but sometimes another figure like the Old Man or such in the prairies, where there aren’t many crows. In fact, virtually every belief system – including Spider Man – carries the same basic message. I would say that it’s so universal, it’s probably something as innate and wired into our brains. In fact, ol’ Sharp Shootin Noimorti seems to be the only human being ever who doesn’t get it even on reflection.

Noimorti, you’re a fucking idiot. Never fucking post on MCS again.

Religion= Trying to explain things that science has yet to prove.

And here is something you never hear a boxer on the receiving end of an ass beating say:

“I’d like to thank Jesus for allowing me to get my ass whooped tonight…”

TT

are we that insecure about humanity that we need to find soething to make it all better and show us the way? fuck we are imature as the dominat species, VOTE THE PANDAS IN

this may seem incoherent i was tired when writing and i couldnt be bothered reading previous points soif i repeat someone i dont fucking care

While you’re at it… ponder this:
I question god daily… going so far as to say “if you’re really that powerful… just get rid of me right now… and save your followers from future embarassment by yours truly”. You know what? I’m still here. Divine entity, indeed. Might as well hitch your wagon to something more than conjecture and silly stories.

When some sicko kidnaps and rapes a 6 year old little girl… who exactly is being tested?

If god existed and was truly worthy of the title then why doesn’t he just turn off whatever it is that makes people do things like that.

http://www.abriefhistoryofdisbelief.org/

The quote from Epicurus (which needs a modern translation) and the background pic come from that series.

** Holy insight, Batman! God is The Joker. **

Twittering about an alleged god, gods, maybe a divine committee in charge of the universe is unimportant and uninteresting.

The deistic god enthroned by U.S. courts (”in god we trust”) or the god of some double-thinking scientist, or the god of Aquinas simply can not be assumed to be “the” divinity claimed by each big-3 monotheism. (Each as we know is ‘the one true religion.’)

I can have opinions about a fictitious character ‘Hamlet’ as presented by Shakespeare in his play, ‘The Tragedy of Hamlet.’ I can also have opinions about a mythological being ‘God’ as presented in the synoptic gospels of ‘The New Testament.’

All I know about these characters is what I can read in pages directly devoted to them — in the primary sources. I can no more find ‘God’ by doing astronomical research than I can disinter ‘Hamlet’s’ bones in a chapel at Elsinore.

When Nietzsche said, “God is dead” he added a gloss — “. . . belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable.”

** the obscenity of comic book monotheism is just a front **

The almighty lords of dualism: Yahweh, God, Allah are each the moral equivalent of a comic book super-villain. God is The Joker.

Sacred comix nonetheless enjoy fanatical cult followings. Biblical exegesis is the intellectual equivalent of geeks parsing Batman. Theology is third-rate fan fiction.

Don’t however mistake political ideology for religious belief. Wherever political ideology reduces to politico-theology, secular society fails. To the true believer: Secularism corrupts. Tolerance capitulates to evil. Only the “pure of heart” (= self-righteous bigots) are saved from their (nonexistent) sins.

Holy text is merely pretext. Ideology masquerading as religion bamboozles the masses, the media. Telemullahs there, televangelists here.

Real terrorist activity in the US: xians undermining the Constitution, trashing biological sciences, and perverting education to suit a totalitarian ideology of social control and cultural domination.

The disgusting wannabe dictator Bush represents only a failed prototype.

Home-grown christo-fascists threaten the life of the Republic far more than all so-called Islamo-fascists combined.

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Just a thought.

“ Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
“I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”

“But,” says Man, “the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. Q.E.D.”

“Oh dear,” says God, “I hadn’t thought of that,” and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

“Oh, that was easy,” says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Most leading theologians claim that this argument isn’t worth a pair of fetid dingo’s kidneys, but that didn’t stop Oolon Colluphid from making a fortune with his book Well That About Wraps It Up For God.

for more compelling liteature on God’s fuax pas try these excellent reads:
“Where God Went Wrong”, “Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes”, “Who is this God Person Anyway?”, and “Well That About Wraps It Up for God” . – The four books on God by ‘Oolon Colluphid’

Xp~

What, do you mean that I’m malevolent because some person is getting beaten in China and I’m not stopping that from happening? I’m willing to prevent acts of violence, but not always able – I’m not a god.

“It means he favors our Free will over his want to protect us.”

…which means that he does not favor protecting us; therefore, we go back to Epicurus’ argument.

But I stopped believing in magic and the easter bunny and santa claus, and lucifer, and leprechauns a long, long time ago, I kid, I kid, but seriously, there is no god in my world.

“In God We Trust” Can we get a government conspiracist say this is a government conspiracy?

Wait, are we supposed to be gods? Of course human nature is evil/malevolent/whatever, duh.