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Thread #158223   Message #3750800
Posted By: Steve Shaw
14-Nov-15 - 08:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
Well I really can't see that there's much to delve into concerning his viewpoint. As for my question being simplistic, it just isn't. If you tell children to believe in a God and make them chant prayers to him that are full of certainties, you are telling lies. It's a simple, unassailable fact, but there's nothing simplistic about it at all. And all I want to know is why that is so much better than telling them the truth. I may couch those questions in simple language, but they are fair questions, plain but not simplistic, and you don't answer them, to your eternal discredit. All the dressing-up in the world, telling me I'm simplistic, that I'm angry, that God can't be seen in the terms I set out, that he is beyond understanding, that he is the great life-force, he that is within and without, and all the rest of the guff, are no more than attempts to turn an impossibility into something respectable and to stop yourself from looking foolish. There's nothing more simplistic than grown, intelligent people infantilising themselves by resorting to this kind of idiocy. And you may just have noticed that I don't appreciate being called simplistic or angry when I'm neither. That's just you getting desperate.