ContraRarian

posnonrel:

Interesting article about the lengths people will go to avoid cognitive dissonance.  It is not about religion per se, but it certainly applies to things like seven day creationism.   Certainly can apply to just about anyone though. It turns out if facts prove your idea is wrong (or at least would to a purely rational person) people just invent increasingly elaborate mechanisms to explain the evidence and not face the possibility that they are wrong.  Since who likes being wrong?

It’s not just creationism. Try pointing out to “Bible believing” Christians that their “all-loving” “God” created people knowing in advance almost all of them would be tortured eternally for having the “wrong religion”. Watch their heads spin on their shoulders. Doesn’t stop them believing tho.

Seriously, people, is the notion of a psycho God really better than no God at all!?

Justice=Love:

Did you read the title of the post, where I said FELLOWatheists/agnostics? I’m an atheist, and I’ve had a few conversations with other non-believers that have been very anti-religion, and not in a just questioning way. When someone proclaims “I hate Christians,” I take issue with that. Questioning religion is something I do on the daily here, but I’m really not okay with hate being spread against religious people just because some people disagree with religion.

I cannot recall having come across anyone who says they “hate christians”. 

I totally agree doing so is wrong. 

While I’m totally with you in the sentiment of your post, I rather suspect that much of the time religious people just aren’t used to having their beliefs questioned…

So blogs my old friend silasriis, trying to justify his Chritian belief in the face of the absurdity of his pretend “God” sending billions of Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists to hell solely because of their religion. But wait - what do Silarriis’s heroes say about hell?

“…the rejection of Christ as Lord and Savior, being a rejection of God Himself, is a sin of infinite gravity and proportion and therefore plausibly does merit infinite punishment. So seen, people are sent to hell, not so much for murder and theft and adultery, but for their rejection of God.” - William Lane Craig

“[C.S.] Lewis believes… residence in hell is eternal because that is just what persons in hell have chosen for themselves.” - wikipedia

The notion that humanity is “without excuse” for not believing in the Christian God is shown to be blitheringly idiotic by the plain fact that even Christians can’t agree amongst themselves what their “God” supposedly says.

And yet they want everyone else to live by their rules and their “morality”.

Not very Christ-like, huh?