Woodstock, sometimes I wonder if you're not WeLove1 in disguise....
Not in this universe.I'm a realist.
Did I receive my good reps for being an "atheist a/hole" too? I know you've not seen me post comments that would make you inclined to refer to me as such... atheist yes, but "a/hole" no. Or does one label automatically accompany the other?You get every last one of your good reps for being an atheist a/hole.....yup, be proud.
In all fairness Babs, no deity has gotten people like you and me any closer to a cure than science has. It's been the opposite, in fact. How many people have died because they refused medical care that their religions frowned upon, if not outright forbade? (Christian traditions/denominations included.) These people died completely unnecessarily, due to having refused treatment proven to cure a high percentage of said treatment's recipients. (I don't even want to get into the children who've died thanks to their parents refusing treatment in order to please their deity... it makes me way to angry to have the ability to be civil!
)Exactly how I've viewed it since I was a child. And honestly, if I were to believe that there are deities that are perfect, I'd be carrying around a lot more anger about terminal and chronic illness than I already do; and it'd all be directed at these deities for allowing any unnecessary and undeserved suffering to happen in the first place, much less neglecting to put a stop to it. I can accept that genetics gets screwy sometimes, and we get sick as a result of whacky DNA combinations. I could never accept that a being creating us "in its image" could be omnipotent, as we would be as well. The image of perfection is perfection, is it not? We're far from perfect, and with reason. There is no such thing as "perfection" as we perceive it.
Your posts have become more and more "HUH?!" inspiring as of late.
