Oh dear, these analogies are so lame and just cause more questions...
- Why has this guide put me on a foggy mountain in the first place? I never asked to go mountain climbing. The guide PUT me there. Why are we not just kickin' it on the beach drinking cold, fruity drinks?
- Why is this guide so capable, yet I am so incapable? Why can't I see the way if this guide can, especially since this guide designed my abilities in the first place? Can this guide not create mountain climbers as all-seeing as he is? I quess I wouldn't need a guide then, would I? I guess this guide just needs to feel wanted.
- The guide can supposedly control the weather. Why did the guide allow a fog bank to come in at all?
- And what if I do follow the guide and I don't enjoy the climb? Or I am still lost, cold, and confused? Let's say I follow the guide's instructions for a year and I am still in the same predicament? What am I to think of this guide? What if I am still in the same predicament 2 years later? 3 years later? How long should I follow this guide who keeps promising to save me but doesn't deliver?
- The content of his moutain climbing book is overly complicated, difficult to read, contains translation errors, contains outated information, and is indiscernable from known false maps to mythical places.
- The reality is that there is no way to know if any of those options (staying on the mountain, venturing out on your own, or fllowing the guide) will actually solve your problem.
- Many people don't hear this guide's voice. Only a few of all the billions of people trapped on the moutain actually hear a voice. The rest of use are supposed to assume that those who hear this voice are not suffering from altitude sickness. And they show other signs of sickness.
And the most impotant question:
Why in the hell does this guide value "faith" over assurance!? This guide can supposedly appear ON THE MOUNTAIN in bodily form! Then there would be no question as to whether his voice is real or in our heads. This guide could actually guide the person down by the hand. At least then the trapped would not feel alone, questioning his sanity, and would know that they are both in it together.
What is the point of your god's wanting to build faith in his people? I can understand why delusional church fathers starting a false religion would want to build faith in people. But why would invisible super beings who can supposedly take bodily form? Perhaps this FAITH that you sell and believe is so important is required only because your false beliefs will not survive without it. And since humans seem to need these false beliefs, they have to support faith.
"...the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the
mean and stupid God you make him out to be." - Lt. Scheisskopf's wife, from Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- Why has this guide put me on a foggy mountain in the first place? I never asked to go mountain climbing. The guide PUT me there. Why are we not just kickin' it on the beach drinking cold, fruity drinks?
- Why is this guide so capable, yet I am so incapable? Why can't I see the way if this guide can, especially since this guide designed my abilities in the first place? Can this guide not create mountain climbers as all-seeing as he is? I quess I wouldn't need a guide then, would I? I guess this guide just needs to feel wanted.
- The guide can supposedly control the weather. Why did the guide allow a fog bank to come in at all?
- And what if I do follow the guide and I don't enjoy the climb? Or I am still lost, cold, and confused? Let's say I follow the guide's instructions for a year and I am still in the same predicament? What am I to think of this guide? What if I am still in the same predicament 2 years later? 3 years later? How long should I follow this guide who keeps promising to save me but doesn't deliver?
- The content of his moutain climbing book is overly complicated, difficult to read, contains translation errors, contains outated information, and is indiscernable from known false maps to mythical places.
- The reality is that there is no way to know if any of those options (staying on the mountain, venturing out on your own, or fllowing the guide) will actually solve your problem.
- Many people don't hear this guide's voice. Only a few of all the billions of people trapped on the moutain actually hear a voice. The rest of use are supposed to assume that those who hear this voice are not suffering from altitude sickness. And they show other signs of sickness.
And the most impotant question:
Why in the hell does this guide value "faith" over assurance!? This guide can supposedly appear ON THE MOUNTAIN in bodily form! Then there would be no question as to whether his voice is real or in our heads. This guide could actually guide the person down by the hand. At least then the trapped would not feel alone, questioning his sanity, and would know that they are both in it together.
What is the point of your god's wanting to build faith in his people? I can understand why delusional church fathers starting a false religion would want to build faith in people. But why would invisible super beings who can supposedly take bodily form? Perhaps this FAITH that you sell and believe is so important is required only because your false beliefs will not survive without it. And since humans seem to need these false beliefs, they have to support faith.
Quote:That's got to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard given that even believers have their doubts at times.
He already made an unambiguous appearance through Jesus Christ.
"...the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the
mean and stupid God you make him out to be." - Lt. Scheisskopf's wife, from Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
