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Dolf Boek is an internet loon.
See;
http://www.ratbags.com/loon/mailbox/dolf.htm
http://www.ratbags.com/ranters/dolf021105.htm
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VCAT/2002/92.html
http://tinyurl.com/5w5hq
http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og/Dolf/Dolf_Classics.txt
I'd like to include here some of my thoughts on Christianity.
Also see my Christianity Index.
I don't have permission to quote the text from the following links so you will need to look for yourself.
Chris would like us to believe that he has figured out where God came from, but he is getting way ahead of himself. There is no evidence that there is a God. Chris should present his God before we can consider where it came from. I can't see in his article where he believes God did come from. Chris just says that God popped into existence at the same moment as time and matter. There may be some justification for the theory that time didn't always exist, but it is still an unprovable theory. There is no justification for the claim that God exists, so to theorise about where God came from is pointless.
Chris uses the Bible as if it has truth in it. Maybe Chris will give us his theories
on why the earth was flat in Bible times with a solid dome, and when it became round.
My theory is that the earth became round and lost the solid dome when the telescope
was invented, but I invite Chris' theory on that.
Chris feels that some people might have difficulty in reconciling the status quo with the existence of an all powerful, good God. That's because it can't be done.
Could we, given the power of God, do a much better job? Yes, of course. To say that God's thoughts are not like ours is to say that God is of no use to us. If God was unable or unwilling to give us all a good life he should not have created.
Chris brings out the old faithful, free will. Since we don't have absolute freewill, if we were biased towards always doing good we would be no less free but we would be much better off.
Since we can only be what our creator made us to be, God should give all of us a life of ease unconditionlly. If God made us properly he would have nothing to complain about and would have no excuse ever to punish us and no need to guide us.
If God wants us to choose him freely he should make himself known to all in an unambiguous and non-threatening way, and he should make it known that we have nothing to gain or lose by following or not following him. Only then could we be free to choose. We get the same treatment by politicions whether we vote for them or not.
If God wants to be loved he should treat us all in a loving way. Threats may make people tow the party line but they don't make a person lovable.
I find it odd that Chris would blame Satan for introducing suffering, rather than God, with whom all power resides. Satan could only have the nature that God gave him. According to the Bible, Satan acted to alert Adam and Eve to the fact that God lied. Satan said they would not die the day they ate from the tree. The Bible says they lived on. Satan said their eyes would be opened and they would know good and evil. The Bible says that is what happened.
It appears that God used Satan to give him an excuse to downgrade all forms of life. I mean, come on, how feeble is the tree story?
One thing we can be certain of is that there is no good God.
God is such a loser and we are his victims. God used a feeble excuse in the garden to
downgrade us, then acted suprised when we turned out as he had planned. God then pretended
to attempt to fix things by making more of the same, then blaming us when that didn't
work. Later, as described in Genesis 11, God observed his creations working in harmony
towards common goals, so he stepped in to ensure we would forever be at each others throats.
Then God used a stupid ritual to appease himself rather than do something practical.
We are blameless here. We are the victims. God is the perpetrator.
Of course, Christianity is fiction, but it's kinda fun to use the Bible against Christians.
Of course there is no known set meaning to life, so we must make our own
Some people find meaning by joining a cult, such as Christianity, and thus being swept
along with no need to think for themselves.
Some find meaning by helping others, or by avoiding being helpful, and so on.
For my dog the meaning of life is to have fun.