RE: If you could ask one question -
10-30-2005, 12:50 PM
>>@ATLian,
>>
>>For someone like you who doesn't believe that God exists
>.....
>>you sure do have a lot of questions.
>>Since you equate believe in God to believe in 'seven-legged
>>pygmies' then i am puzzled that you still think that its
>>logical to ask God questions.
>
>OK TM,
>
>is it that you are slow, or you intentionally choose to NOT
>look at my posts intelligently? I don't think you are slow, I
>think you're just so blinded by your religion that you can
>only look at things from one view point, which means you have
>to ignore other view points even if they may make sense to
>you.
>
>Let me state this as simply as I can: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO
>BELIEVE IN SOMETHING TO ARGUE ABOUT IT (BTW I'm stressing not
>shouting).
>
>Let me give you a simple example. I'm sure we've all read
>Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart". Of course we all know
>that his main character, Okonkwo, never existed. Yet we did
>exams on him, wrote papers about him, we argued about him, we
>discussed his personality, motivations, his wives and kids,
>the consequences of his actions, etc.
>
>All these discussions were based on the context Okonkwo was
>presented to us by Chinua Achebe. That's why I can tell you
>right now that Okonkwo was not a patient man, he was not
>rational in many of his actions, he was a hard worker, etc,
>even though we all know he never existed.
>
>A very feasible literature question is "What would you ask
>Okonkwo if you met him?" I'd ask him why he partook in the
>killing of his son. Someone would ask him why he was a wife
>beater. etc. If you then came across a group of people
>discussing what they'd ask Okonkwo, and you said that they
>shouldn't ask him questions just because they don't believe he
>exists, you'd look like an idiot.
>
>Back to your god(s) - I argue on them based on the context
>they are presented in the various religious books. Therefore I
>judge god based on what is written about him and said by him
>in the bible. If the Bible shows god is a child killer, then
>I'd like to ask him why.
>
>BTW you don't believe Coach's god exists. Yet you have had
>long arguments with him about his god. You have judged his
>god, and called him out based on what he is made out to be in
>the Koran. Just check out your comments on the "@bout
>Islam..." discussion, where you argue strongly against a god
>you dont believe in. So why suddenly are you being
>hypocritical?
>
>Finally - the 7-legged-pygmies is a freaking analogy, just
>like Okonkwo. Damn, is simple stuff really this hard to
>grasp?????
>
good one, feel ya pain cuz.what you need to know is some peeps in this forum cant reason out facts(true)and at times tis always pointless to try(my opinion)
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