On Aug 3, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Nick Arnett wrote:
There can't be too many different species, Noah's Ark wasn't
big enough to carry them all!
What, evolution stopped with the Ark?
As long as we're on that subject, it dawned on me a while ago
that the trouble I have with creationists is that they believe
in a God who is too stupid to have created evolution.
I think the problem with creationists is that it's a good
excuse for satanism. If God is such a motherfscker to create
the world in six days and place everywhere signs that the
Earth is 5 billion years old and the Universe is 15 billion
years old, just to deceive His creation, then Satan can't be
that bad in rebelling.
I've actually heard the claim that all the evidence that the earth
is 5 billion years old (and so forth) are tricks of the devil,
designed to erode our faith in God. Not just "read it somewhere",
but heard it spoken as though it was true.
Then again, there's the Jewish tradition that "The Satan" isn't
an embodiment of pure evil or some bad dude in red pajamas with a
goatee and a pitchfork, but is, in fact, the "prosecuting angel",
whose role is to find out whether believers are truly faithful.
He works _for_ God in that capacity and asks permission from God
to do what he does.
The idea that Christianity or Judaism believe that the devil is
a separate but (thankfully, not quite) equal power to God is
nonsense: it goes against the whole idea of monotheism. You can
accept or not accept the monotheistic God of Judeo-Christianity
as you see fit, but you can't accept it _and_ have this "other
power" floating out there, too. He works for God or he doesn't
exist.
Dave
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