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There are some amazing people out there. A lot of them are amazingly stupid. A sure fire way to appear amazingly stupid (oh, and to be amazingly stupid at the exact same time) is to state publicly, for the record, what God really means (I guess when he "says" something) and what people really mean by their actions in the context of Godness or Godosity or however they call that.
Here's my current top of the list of I cannot believe someone actually typed this out:
"What reason can we find for gayness that's not applicable for heterosexuals also?
"Well, because I'm a nice guy, I'll go ahead a give you the reason so you don't have to go around asking your fundamentalist friends: You hate God. No really, that's it. You just want to spite the Maker by dangling your queerness all up in His face. Don't worry, though, you're not alone. That is pretty much the only reason why anyone ever does Bad Stuff. You may have heard these people say they believe everything happens for a reason. They are lying. Things happen because God says they do, and their caricature of Him isn't fond of giving reasons."
Now, aside from great lines like dangling your queerness all up in His face" which might be the best line I've read in a long time, this guy's post is just awesome, it's really hard to say what this person believes until you get to this great line, then you get the impression that they know a lot less than they believe but they're pretty danged sure they know a lot because they believe mightily.
I won't bother with a link because they don't deserve one. I found the site after a link in another random blog where you copy the text of the 5th sentence of the 23rd page of the first book you pick up and put in on the internet for everyone to randomly read out of context. I was tricked into thinking they weren't creepy protletizers because the book they quoted from had greek gramar in the title.
It does sadden me when someone can say such moronic stuff right next to something I think is funny and generally agree with (in the abstract of course):
"The standard fallback, as it is with many problematic theological questions, is that the existence of Hell is "mysterious." This is not really true. We know exactly what the Eternal Capital Punishment Compound is there for, according to "orthodox" theology. It's there for a jealous and vindictive deity to slaughtor folks who don't play for the right team. (Curiously, God sends people to Hell for the same reasons humans throughout history have thought he should. Mysterious, indeed.) I wouldn't want to be his buddy if he were a person walking the earth (and rightly so, says the Good Book), but heck, he's our malevolent omnipotent deity, so we're signing up for the show."
Here's my current top of the list of I cannot believe someone actually typed this out:
"What reason can we find for gayness that's not applicable for heterosexuals also?
"Well, because I'm a nice guy, I'll go ahead a give you the reason so you don't have to go around asking your fundamentalist friends: You hate God. No really, that's it. You just want to spite the Maker by dangling your queerness all up in His face. Don't worry, though, you're not alone. That is pretty much the only reason why anyone ever does Bad Stuff. You may have heard these people say they believe everything happens for a reason. They are lying. Things happen because God says they do, and their caricature of Him isn't fond of giving reasons."
Now, aside from great lines like dangling your queerness all up in His face" which might be the best line I've read in a long time, this guy's post is just awesome, it's really hard to say what this person believes until you get to this great line, then you get the impression that they know a lot less than they believe but they're pretty danged sure they know a lot because they believe mightily.
I won't bother with a link because they don't deserve one. I found the site after a link in another random blog where you copy the text of the 5th sentence of the 23rd page of the first book you pick up and put in on the internet for everyone to randomly read out of context. I was tricked into thinking they weren't creepy protletizers because the book they quoted from had greek gramar in the title.
It does sadden me when someone can say such moronic stuff right next to something I think is funny and generally agree with (in the abstract of course):
"The standard fallback, as it is with many problematic theological questions, is that the existence of Hell is "mysterious." This is not really true. We know exactly what the Eternal Capital Punishment Compound is there for, according to "orthodox" theology. It's there for a jealous and vindictive deity to slaughtor folks who don't play for the right team. (Curiously, God sends people to Hell for the same reasons humans throughout history have thought he should. Mysterious, indeed.) I wouldn't want to be his buddy if he were a person walking the earth (and rightly so, says the Good Book), but heck, he's our malevolent omnipotent deity, so we're signing up for the show."
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