Lying - A social necessity?

Originally posted by @romans1009
What atheist website have you been trolling on?

What version of the Bible does it use?

Do you feel that you’re a tool of Satan in your obsession with bashing God or does the motivation come from somewhere else?

Do you get physically excited when you think you may have prevented someone from believing in Jesus Christ?

Do you go to shopping malls to hand out leaflets or do you confine your atheist propaganda to the Internet?

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Or you could simply address the quote and contribute to the thread like a grown up.

(And it was the KJV your specified favourite).

Originally posted by @moonbus
Cmon, Ghost, you don't have search very far for instances where the God of the OT is an unrighteous bastard. Just read the Book of Job. Why do you think the primal response to the OT God was fear?

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Again you have overpowered the Ghost with your wisdom sir and I have to concede that the OT presents a tyrannical God who thrives on fear and destruction.

Just this morning I held the view that the God of the OT was morally stable, but now see the error of my ways. (A complete shift in theological thinking between breakfast and afternoon tea).

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
"Sage advice," whispers the Ghost, "skulking in the corner, plotting revenge and skulduggery.

Originally posted by @romans1009
Time for your afternoon nap, tiger.

Originally posted by @freakykbh
That's a weird thing to almost say to one's self.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Again you have overpowered the Ghost with your wisdom sir and I have to concede that the OT presents a tyrannical God who thrives on fear and destruction.

Just this morning I held the view that the God of the OT was morally stable, but now see the error of my ways. (A complete shift in theological thinking between breakfast and afternoon tea).

Originally posted by @moonbus
Yes, well, that very realization, namely that the angry-vengeful God of the OT needed to lighten up and transform Himself into the loving-forgiving God of the NT, which occurred to you between breakfast and tea time, took some hundreds of years to establish itself in the Mediterranean collective consciousness, so consider yourself among the spiritual adepts ...[text shortened]... arnate bowling people over with miracle after miracle, in their faces, and still did not get it.

Originally posted by @fmf
I am here discussing what I see as mundane human ideologies with diverse individuals and witnessing the impact that such ideologies have on the intellectual and interpersonal behaviour of those that propagate them. It's what this little social media facility is for.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
I have indeed come a long way in my theological thinking, on the journey from marmalade on toast to salmon en croute.

(I wouldn't be at all surprised, if before arriving at vegetarian moussaka, I have fully refuted the teleological argument and proven the case for existentialism).

Originally posted by @moonbus
Hmmm, running headlong into mousaka. ..I myself am still wrestling with clotted cream on top or jam on top.

Fruit scones, or plain?

EDIT I am reminded that Jainists hold life per se, not only sentient life, to be sacred. Some won’t walk on grass. I suppose a thorough-going Jainist would have to eat only carrion from animals which had died of natural causes.

Part of me wants to eat scones, for the greater good.

Originally posted by @moonbus
Part of me wants to eat scones, for the greater good.

Originally posted by @moonbus
Really? You think social media exist for the people who frequent them? For exchanging ideas?? We’re cannon fodder.

Social media exist to provide revenue for the financial backers of said media.