The 7 Godly Sins
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A book: "50 Voices of Disbelief - Why we are atheists" one writer talks about how we have it all wrong. Instead of a loving God maybe it is a joking, evil God. He says people excuse ugly as a way to heighten beauty but can't that be reversed? It was a very interesting suggestion. But now I have to leave to get my bandages changed. Remind me and I will provide more details. I have the book next to me and will look up the authors name.
JackPedigo
Level 9
Aug 13, 2018
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That's a very interesting perspective. It reminds me of an idea that I have had for a long time which is how does God get all of the credit for everything that's good but none of the blame for anything that's bad? People of faith attribute everything that's bad to Satan but if God created everything then he also created the evil that would be associated with Satan so why doesn't he just destroy that evil so we don't have to deal with that in the world? I'm going to go with it's because he doesn't exist.
Stilltrying1964
Level 7
Aug 12, 2018
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That question is what lead me to be an atheist. I had a miscarriage and I was a believer at the time. My friends all said “don’t blame god” and I didn’t. I Was comforted with my belief in god and would talk to god a lot. Then I had a baby and someone said “thank god” to me. This started me thinking. How can I thank god but not blame god? That was the beginning of the end for me.
I saw a bumper sticker today that said :
Faith , Hope, Love !
Im thinkin " didnt that use to be " :
Faith , Hope and Charity ?
and according to Jeeebus , Charity was the greatest if these
Xians wanted to distance their greedy selves from that charity thing so , they over-ruled Jeebus ?
Scottzillyun
Level 6
Aug 9, 2018
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The KJV said charity; most of the newer translations all say love. Charity as a theological virtue is a very specific type of love where you love god above all else and love your neighbor as an extension of god’s love. The passage is from 1 Corinthians 13 written by Paul and translated from Greek. So the word would have been “agape” (pronounced ah-GAH-pay not like you’re gaping ?) which means either charity or love, or more accurately both: a charitable Love. I guess they just assumed the word love is broad enough that it includes the concept of charity and left it at that. Not to nerd out and play god’s advocate but they didn’t change it out of a desire to not be charitable; although that’s an independently true phenomenon, they only want to be charitable if you listen to their horseshit.
@Wurlitzer Yes. Sometimes it's just a translational thing but it makes you wonder if people are using it today to distance themselves from what is happening to the immigrants. I know a right wing Christian family that plainly says "Jesus would not approve or all the handouts." They must have a different bible maybe.
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