“We knew, finally, the the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
“Turning the other cheek turns out to have selfish advantages. Someone who does you an injury hurts you twice: first by the injury itself, and second by taking up your time afterward thinking about it. If you learn to ignore injuries you can at least avoid the second half.”
I think you can be good, just, violent and punishing all at the same time, and I don’t think many thinking Christians would argue that their God was non-violent or non-judgmental.
Things get very confusing, though, when you combine your standard peace-loving Jesus with your fire-and-brimstone God. The Bible says that they’re one, yet separate. I have yet to work that out, and I’m not optimistic that I will.
That said, the Old Testament (plus Revelations) God sure is nutty. You’ll note that the vast majority of the weird stuff happens in the Old Testament plus Revelations.
Hmm. Humanists live in a glass house on this issue, those walls having been built by the atheist trinity of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
Where is the good and just atheist politician humanists say could exist?
I kid, of course, and blaming Humanism for the acts of the three most famous attempts to drive humanity to a utopian future absent any need for God should TOTALLY not count against their score.
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