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Absolutely damn straight comrade

In Reply to: not according to the bible you aren't. posted by Floyd on February 25, 19100 at 11:15:02:

: That, more than anything else, is the reason why I can't take fundamentalism seriously. Catholicism at least requires good works and regular confession throughout one's lifetime. None of this deathbed conversion nonsense. It's this mindset that convinces the fundies that people are basically horrid, I'll bet, since the only reason they see for being nice to each other is to keep Sky Daddy from giving them a thrashing when he gets home. If that's really the nature of god, I want nothing to do with the petty little jerk, frankly! Fortunately it's possible to believe in a god who isn't a playground bully or a small-minded thug.

Absolutely damn straight comrade (I am right, you are a comrade arent you?), this has always been my problem with people attempting to evangelise me, they tell me God's so great and merciful because he hasnt roasted me yet for sins I didnt commit!!!

How can you believe that? What kind of mentality tries to suggest being bullied, threatened and oppressed is a good and fine existence and that enduring it may mean you can stand behind the bully when he picks on someone else? I dont think it's an ethical one anyway.

No I believe in the just, kind, compassionate and merciful variety of God who's isnt as humanistic and impulsive, at least in his spiritual incarnation, to get angry and bitter even if it's a myth. The kind of guy who would let you scare the bajesus out of the pious, in a bar well stocked with Jameson and stout, if that's really your kind of thing ;-)

: -Floyd

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