Why Does God Hate Amputees? by Marshall Brain: “Un…
October 29, 2005 by John in Uncategorized
Why Does God Hate Amputees? by Marshall Brain: “Understand the paradox that we see here. Do not turn away from it — actually face the paradox and comprehend its significance.”
October 30th, 2005 at 2:03 pm
I didn’t read past the first page, because I found a serious flaw in logic right on the first page…
“If God is real, then we should certainly post the Ten Commandments in our courthouses and shopping centers, pray in our schools and eliminate the theory of evolution from every curriculum. We should focus our society on God.”…
If God is real, how does any person know for a fact, definitively, that he advocated the 10 Commandments, that he approves of the Bible & everything in it, that he disapproves of people learning about evolution, or that he’s so egotistical & needy that he wants everyone to ignore every other facet of life in order to devote everything in adulation of Him?
Or is that what this site is about? How God isn’t the problem, but that human religion is?
Because it seems to me everyone linking to this seems to think this is some kind of logical argument against the existence of God - which is foolish, because it’s definitely NOT. It might be an argument against the rationale of certain aspects of human religion, but that’s about it.
October 30th, 2005 at 3:39 pm
You’re going in so many directions here I’ll just pick one. Logic. You pulled this quote:
“If God is real, then we should certainly post the Ten Commandments in our courthouses and shopping centers, pray in our schools and eliminate the theory of evolution from every curriculum. We should focus our society on God.”
This is only a portion of the logical conundrum. Taken by itself it may seem illogical. If the christian god is real, then the bible is real and we should follow it to the letter, being good little creations in his image. If that’s the case then there really shouldn’t be separation of church and state. And the Ten Commandments become the defacto law of the land (or at least the core of it).
If the bible was provable truth, no room for doubt or skepticism, then our society would follow it. Of course this would usher in another holocaust as everyone who wasn’t christian would systematically be put on the spot and told to believe or die. Of course, this part is just my opinion (certainly there’s no precedent for such a thing </snark>). Because human nature, being what it is, many of the people on the “losing side,” muslims, buddhists, hindus, jews, etc. would still cling to their ingrained beliefs, even in the face of proof that the christians and the christian bible were “right.”
October 30th, 2005 at 6:58 pm
The (only) arguments he sets forth seems to argue against the existence of god based on certain particular conceptions of god.
So his arguments have no substance in regards to the non-existence of god, only perhaps against certain perceptions of god as put forth by certain Christian Bible Literalists or whatnot.
This would seem to me to be an example of the use of a straw man, which is terribly illogical.
However, the very nature of a supreme being, a universal force, makes arguing agianst its existence dodgy at best.
I think he would’ve done better to make the point specifically to one particular sect’s conception of god, the myths surrounding it, and the rules (morals) derived from such.
Attacking belief in GOD, in general, is bloody foolish.
Of course I could be mistaken and perhaps his intention WAS only to attack certain sect’s rationale based on human constructed religious doctrine. But by what I see people saying who are linking to it, they seem to think it’s a grand argument in favour of complete atheism - which it’s definitely not a logical argument in that sense.
October 30th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
OH, and on a somewhat related note, today my mother told me what she thought about watching, with her (christian) church group, a movie based on the “Left Behind” novel.
I warned her that it was popular among evangelicals and fundamentalists, but she was determined to keep an open mind.
After seeing it, she described it as “bad science fiction” which distorted (I think she said “fractured”) the Bible into its own twisted meaning for the movie…
My mother is a Christian. Yet basically she thought that was a load of bullocks.
Therefore, I think it’s highly dodgy to even use SOME Christian beliefs from certain sects as a straw man to even refute “The Christian God” perception as a whole. Never mind the conception of a universal force anyone chooses to call “God” that has no actual connection to Christianity.