The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #161997   Message #3855975
Posted By: Jim Carroll
19-May-17 - 08:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy
Subject: RE: BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy
find it extremely amusin that eveything good that happens is attributed to some mystical but unproven (therefore non-existent) being yet everything evil is the result of human failing
If there is a god, he seems to be a bit of an arrogant self-absorbed prick
Of course there is evidence that God is an invention to provide a career for the ambitious
"Darwin was wrong. Man's STILL an ape!"
A point of accuracy - Darwin never suggested he ever was - he merely pointed out that they and we evolved from the same source.
Christianity has been kept alive by spiritual blackmail, promotion of ignorance, torture and mass murder - without that, it would have dissipated with all the other primitive beliefs.The church's response to science and knowledge had always been a violent one
It is up to those who believe in bogeu-man to prove their existence, otherwise, unless they make themselves visible they don't exist.
I think the high point of the "there is a god" argument has to be Ake's Stephen Fry must be wrong because he is such a bad entertainer (if that is not what he is arguing, why does it have any relevance here?)
Bonkers!!!
Jim Carroll