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Thread #161997   Message #3855757
Posted By: Steve Shaw
18-May-17 - 05:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy
Subject: RE: BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy
God is ultimately unknowable because religions have made him unknowable, a quite deliberate ploy in order to make him invulnerable to scrutiny. For belt and braces, religions have traditionally had severe blasphemy laws in place in order to stop people from even thinking of scrutinising him.

As God created everything, presumably he created the laws of science, the same laws that brought about the plague, HIV and the Boxing Day tsunami. You don't get him off that lightly, I'm afraid.

You have the Dawkins/Hitchens/Steve brigade (😁) all wrong, Joe. Our basic premise is that we do NOT have the answers, the only way that answers can be found being through honest scientific endeavour. That is the most UNlimiting thing I can think of. Your answers are far too easy for for our towering intellects, so unchallenging, So limiting. Everything put there by an omnipotent yet invisible God who continues to provide a driving force. End of, Joe. That's too abject for words. By the way, there is no place for divine intervention in the laws of nature. You can't bolt magic on to stuff that works so well. You'll just spoil it. The garden is already lovely enough without putting fairies at the bottom of it. With apologies to Douglas Adams.