09-18-2015, 03:59 PM
(09-18-2015, 03:30 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: I understand your thoughts.
I'm not as stubborn as some people.
In fact I"m rather open-minded about my religion.
I think it rather vain to assume that any of us has it all figured out.
I only felt the discussion seemed a little narrow without a small amount of responsibility given to humankind.
Without interjecting that, we enable the zealot's excuse of "It's all God's will and there's nothing you can do" defense.
I would feel terrible knowing I could have contributed to fortifying that, by remaining silent.
I'm just taking the attributes that Christians prescribe to their god and trying to make sense of them. If he is who they say he is and has the attributes that they say he has, then it is silly to pretend like he isn't the cause and ultimate responsibility for any and everything that happens.
They can't have their cake and eat it too. Either he planned it to be this way, or he is a bystander whose plans have been sabotaged by humans.