http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/ The daily...weekly...occasional journal by someone you don't know. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/comment-page-1/#comment-4435 jennifer Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:10:17 +0000 http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/#comment-4435 See, I've never believed the whole "original sin" concept, despite my fundamentalist upbringing described below. For me, I've always looked at it in a metaphorical sense, as well as the salvation from said sin. It's a cultural legend, much like Aesop's Fables, that was written to explain the rotten state of humanity, and the answer to it, for a small isolated group of people. Every culture on earth has one. The challenge is to look for the truth behind the story, and the problem arises when we take it literally. See, I’ve never believed the whole “original sin” concept, despite my fundamentalist upbringing described below. For me, I’ve always looked at it in a metaphorical sense, as well as the salvation from said sin. It’s a cultural legend, much like Aesop’s Fables, that was written to explain the rotten state of humanity, and the answer to it, for a small isolated group of people. Every culture on earth has one. The challenge is to look for the truth behind the story, and the problem arises when we take it literally.

]]> http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/comment-page-1/#comment-80237 jennifer Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:10:00 +0000 http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/#comment-80237 See, I've never believed the whole "original sin" concept, despite my fundamentalist upbringing described below. For me, I've always looked at it in a metaphorical sense, as well as the salvation from said sin. It's a cultural legend, much like Aesop's Fables, that was written to explain the rotten state of humanity, and the answer to it, for a small isolated group of people. Every culture on earth has one. The challenge is to look for the truth behind the story, and the problem arises when we take it literally. See, I’ve never believed the whole “original sin” concept, despite my fundamentalist upbringing described below. For me, I’ve always looked at it in a metaphorical sense, as well as the salvation from said sin. It’s a cultural legend, much like Aesop’s Fables, that was written to explain the rotten state of humanity, and the answer to it, for a small isolated group of people. Every culture on earth has one. The challenge is to look for the truth behind the story, and the problem arises when we take it literally.

]]> http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/comment-page-1/#comment-4431 CelticBear Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:40:35 +0000 http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/#comment-4431 My last straw involved "salvation." We know there was no Eden, Adam, and Eve. If there was no literal "original sin," putting aside the unmerciful and unloving and unjust idea of making everyone pay for the sin of one man, then what exactly are we being "saved" from? Every path toward answering that question ultimately leads back to a human-like god with insecurity creating a no-win situation and is fundamentally responsible for the very sin/condition humanity finds itself in. Supposedly we have to be saved from god's very own setup of totally needless damnation that is utterly contrary to any concept of mercy and love and justice. The Biblegod set us up to fall and then decided to save us from the fall he set up through a revealed religion that you can't know about unless someone with a book tells you about it. It's delusional. My last straw involved “salvation.” We know there was no Eden, Adam, and Eve. If there was no literal “original sin,” putting aside the unmerciful and unloving and unjust idea of making everyone pay for the sin of one man, then what exactly are we being “saved” from?
Every path toward answering that question ultimately leads back to a human-like god with insecurity creating a no-win situation and is fundamentally responsible for the very sin/condition humanity finds itself in. Supposedly we have to be saved from god’s very own setup of totally needless damnation that is utterly contrary to any concept of mercy and love and justice. The Biblegod set us up to fall and then decided to save us from the fall he set up through a revealed religion that you can’t know about unless someone with a book tells you about it. It’s delusional.

]]> http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/comment-page-1/#comment-80236 CelticBear Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:40:00 +0000 http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/#comment-80236 My last straw involved "salvation." We know there was no Eden, Adam, and Eve. If there was no literal "original sin," putting aside the unmerciful and unloving and unjust idea of making everyone pay for the sin of one man, then what exactly are we being "saved" from? Every path toward answering that question ultimately leads back to a human-like god with insecurity creating a no-win situation and is fundamentally responsible for the very sin/condition humanity finds itself in. Supposedly we have to be saved from god's very own setup of totally needless damnation that is utterly contrary to any concept of mercy and love and justice. The Biblegod set us up to fall and then decided to save us from the fall he set up through a revealed religion that you can't know about unless someone with a book tells you about it. It's delusional. My last straw involved “salvation.” We know there was no Eden, Adam, and Eve. If there was no literal “original sin,” putting aside the unmerciful and unloving and unjust idea of making everyone pay for the sin of one man, then what exactly are we being “saved” from?
Every path toward answering that question ultimately leads back to a human-like god with insecurity creating a no-win situation and is fundamentally responsible for the very sin/condition humanity finds itself in. Supposedly we have to be saved from god’s very own setup of totally needless damnation that is utterly contrary to any concept of mercy and love and justice. The Biblegod set us up to fall and then decided to save us from the fall he set up through a revealed religion that you can’t know about unless someone with a book tells you about it. It’s delusional.

]]> http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/comment-page-1/#comment-4427 jennifer Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:34:41 +0000 http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/#comment-4427 It was you pointing me to the Why Won’t God Heal Amputees site that finally made the last straw crumble for me. We talk about the reasons God allows suffering, in the big cosmic sense of things, in theological terminology that sounds great in theory. But when you isolate a specific group of people such as amputees, and start trying to apply the various apologetics, the case just falls apart. There is no choice but to follow this through to its conclusion, which is what I did. All the nagging questions and inconsistencies harbored in my brain for so long suddenly crystallized. It was you pointing me to the Why Won’t God Heal Amputees site that finally made the last straw crumble for me. We talk about the reasons God allows suffering, in the big cosmic sense of things, in theological terminology that sounds great in theory. But when you isolate a specific group of people such as amputees, and start trying to apply the various apologetics, the case just falls apart. There is no choice but to follow this through to its conclusion, which is what I did. All the nagging questions and inconsistencies harbored in my brain for so long suddenly crystallized.

]]> http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/comment-page-1/#comment-80235 jennifer Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:34:00 +0000 http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2007/01/19/extent-of-suffering-in-our-world-makes-the-existence-of-god-implausible/#comment-80235 It was you pointing me to the Why Won’t God Heal Amputees site that finally made the last straw crumble for me. We talk about the reasons God allows suffering, in the big cosmic sense of things, in theological terminology that sounds great in theory. But when you isolate a specific group of people such as amputees, and start trying to apply the various apologetics, the case just falls apart. There is no choice but to follow this through to its conclusion, which is what I did. All the nagging questions and inconsistencies harbored in my brain for so long suddenly crystallized. It was you pointing me to the Why Won’t God Heal Amputees site that finally made the last straw crumble for me. We talk about the reasons God allows suffering, in the big cosmic sense of things, in theological terminology that sounds great in theory. But when you isolate a specific group of people such as amputees, and start trying to apply the various apologetics, the case just falls apart. There is no choice but to follow this through to its conclusion, which is what I did. All the nagging questions and inconsistencies harbored in my brain for so long suddenly crystallized.

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