Overheard

“I swore with my hand on the Bible to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t swear with my hand on the Constitution to uphold the Bible.”

“Buy anything you want at the grocery store; cooking is always cheaper than eating out.”

“There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people’s money and 2. Dismissing an idea.”

“Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”

“Oh boy! Another great opportunity for personal growth!”

Comments

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.

Posted by Darren
  at 3:20 pm on Nov. 24, 2006

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.

For some reason, I’m sure.

Posted by Ryan Cousineau
  at 5:40 pm on Nov. 25, 2006

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