I know this subject has been plenty debated already but I'm still wondering how his can be overlooked by any theist.
My argument has always been the natural world revolves around cruelty which seems like a case of "nuff said" when refuting the possibility of a mercifull and loving creator but I'm beginning to realise many christians simply can't empathise with animals and don't feel that animals hurting animals warrants coming to the conclusion that if there is a god he is a cold heartless diabolical monster.
Well how do 4 year old children float your boat?
Ok, there is an entire species of insect known as the tetse fly who's whole point of existing is to inject its eggs into the eyeballs of young homo-sapiens.
The larvae hatches and litterally eats away the eye before developing into an adult and flying away to find another human eye.
Apparently a creator created the tetse fly, which means he intended for children to painfully have their eyeballs eaten away and become blind before they can even speak.
This is all the tetse fly knows to do, it needs to do this to survive and breed, we can't blame the tetse fly's free will on this one, and obviously we can't blame man's free will on this either.
Your "god" apparently invented the tetse fly from scratch. Therefore your god wants children to have their eyeballs eaten while they scream.
Its pretty straightforward, I can't see how one can argue in favour of a mercifull loving creator after aquiring this knowledge.
I can't wait to watch you try though.
Granted, this doesn't debunk the existence of a god, but it does bring up the question "if there is a god what kind of a god are we looking at here?"
I'd say he'd have to be a creative genius, but a fairly depraved and twisted one.
If he can come up with scams like this on innocent children whats to say he's not scamming those who believe in him? Whats to say his request that you follow such and such rules isn't in fact instructions on how to get into hell?
After seeing the tetse fly, and accepting it was created by god, what exactly WOULDN'T you put past him?
Seems to me he's willing to go to any length in order to dish out cruel and unusual punishment and he seems to get off on being outlandishly creative with this. From what we can gather of his personality, it seems tricking millions of people into accidently signing themselves into an eternity of torture and mysery is a feat he would be extremely proud of. Thats just the kind of entity he seems to be from what I can tell.
You can continue believing in your god if you want, but what reason do you have to trust him after you know the sort of scenario's he likes to invent? What is it about a sadistic supervillain you find so appealing?
My argument has always been the natural world revolves around cruelty which seems like a case of "nuff said" when refuting the possibility of a mercifull and loving creator but I'm beginning to realise many christians simply can't empathise with animals and don't feel that animals hurting animals warrants coming to the conclusion that if there is a god he is a cold heartless diabolical monster.
Well how do 4 year old children float your boat?
Ok, there is an entire species of insect known as the tetse fly who's whole point of existing is to inject its eggs into the eyeballs of young homo-sapiens.
The larvae hatches and litterally eats away the eye before developing into an adult and flying away to find another human eye.
Apparently a creator created the tetse fly, which means he intended for children to painfully have their eyeballs eaten away and become blind before they can even speak.
This is all the tetse fly knows to do, it needs to do this to survive and breed, we can't blame the tetse fly's free will on this one, and obviously we can't blame man's free will on this either.
Your "god" apparently invented the tetse fly from scratch. Therefore your god wants children to have their eyeballs eaten while they scream.
Its pretty straightforward, I can't see how one can argue in favour of a mercifull loving creator after aquiring this knowledge.
I can't wait to watch you try though.
Granted, this doesn't debunk the existence of a god, but it does bring up the question "if there is a god what kind of a god are we looking at here?"
I'd say he'd have to be a creative genius, but a fairly depraved and twisted one.
If he can come up with scams like this on innocent children whats to say he's not scamming those who believe in him? Whats to say his request that you follow such and such rules isn't in fact instructions on how to get into hell?
After seeing the tetse fly, and accepting it was created by god, what exactly WOULDN'T you put past him?
Seems to me he's willing to go to any length in order to dish out cruel and unusual punishment and he seems to get off on being outlandishly creative with this. From what we can gather of his personality, it seems tricking millions of people into accidently signing themselves into an eternity of torture and mysery is a feat he would be extremely proud of. Thats just the kind of entity he seems to be from what I can tell.
You can continue believing in your god if you want, but what reason do you have to trust him after you know the sort of scenario's he likes to invent? What is it about a sadistic supervillain you find so appealing?