Good will to all men? Not from the grumpy atheists! (Thank God not all atheists are grumpy but there sure seems to be a lot of them)
Why is it that so many in the atheist community cannot bring themselves to get past their anger whenever they engage in discussions? The language of many of their contributions in public debate is laced with invective and dripping with sarcasm and bile. There are exceptions of course, but they tend to fall more into the category of being the 'exception that proves the rule' when compared to the hostility of many of today's atheist posters. Comment offered by the theists in the public square is often depicted as being 'malicious' or 'venomous' and intended to enslave the 'feeble minded and weak' by those who post. Nothing could be further from the truth. Venom is something that is oriented to death. Christians are oriented in a 180 degree different direction. We speak not to the culture of death that grips our world but rather for the culture of life and light which ends with the gift of eternal life. For example, the Catholic Church in its hum...
These are the like of questions and commentaries that reveal such strange notions of God and is truly the nonsense from where atheism rises. What reasonable minded grown-up can possibly assent to any belief in such a ridiculous god as this?
ReplyDeleteA more basic question. Why would a God want/need worship? That seems very strange bordering on ...
ReplyDeleteThere's a reasonable chance that within the next 100 years if civilization endures we will be able to create a computer with self aware intelligence. If that happens, what would be the reaction if the most important thing the computer scientists did was to make sure the computer worshiped and praised it.
Can you imagine the computer Psalmist exclaiming "I will extol You, my Programmer, O King, and I will bless Your code forever and ever. Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your code forever and ever. Great is the Programmer, and highly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise Your code to another, and shall declare Your mighty subroutines"? with apologies to Psalm 145