November 08, 2003

Church Chat

There's a Church Sign Generator over at aboyandhiscomputer.com (which looks like a site worth exploring some more). Here's my first try:

Have at it.

(from Oliver)

Comments

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Posted by: Steve Smith at December 16, 2003 04:02 PM

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Posted by: liam priestley at May 12, 2004 08:16 AM

I am not a Christian, because Christianity is based on the Bible, and I find the Bible to be anything but the Word of God. If a book really were inspired by God, it would be intelligible, consistent, and moral, and not the muddled, contradictory, immoral mess the Bible is.
Here’s a very basic contradiction:
The Bible emphatically claims the end is near. "The end of all things is at hand" (1 Pet 4:7), "the time is near" (Rev. 1:3), "the time is short" (1 Cor 7:29), "in these last days" (Heb 1:2), "watch therefore" (Mt 25:13), "he will not tarry" (Heb 10:37), "I come quickly" (Rev. 22:20).
Is it not abundantly clear that the Bible writers expected the world to end in their generation? But it’s 2,000 years later; the world continues. Clearly the Bible was wrong; the end was not near. The Bible did not speak the truth

Posted by: liam priestley, atheist and freethinker at May 12, 2004 08:19 AM

The Church teaches we all bear the guilt of the original sin of Adam. We are cleansed of this sin by the ritual of Baptism. And we are reconciled with God through Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. Thus, our relationship with God is determined by what other people did, thousands of years ago.
I reject this theology as irrational, primitive, and moronic.
I am not responsible for what an alleged Adam did thousands of years ago. And Jesus's death does not in any way mitigate the responsibility I do have for any crime I commit. Furthermore, I reject any theology that puts credulity and submission on the highest pedestal, rather than reason, compassion, and good behavior.

Posted by: liam priestley, atheist and freethinker at May 12, 2004 08:19 AM

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