General Donner wrote:
It's a core teaching of Christianity that it's never too late for anyone to change.
So why would God kill people in floods if they could still change?
(Except apostates, to some, but that's somewhat complicated and a separate issue besides.) STVSSW most probably won't do any of the above, but I still feel I ought to tell him about my experience on the off chance that he might feel different in the future, and then can find my advice useful. To me, unlike fun and games like sci fi debating, this is actually quite serious stuff.
You're right, it is. Which is why what you're going to say below is even more insulting.
Nevertheless, I suspect you're right on both counts. It's really a bit odd how he emulates Wong's every opinion like this. Even if you agree with the guy's take on ST vs SW, you don't have to idolize every word he speaks. I sure know I didn't, even back when I was fully in the Wongian camp. And going by his anti-creationist pages, he knows even less about the Bible than about ST (and presents what he does know even more dishonestly).
Let me get this straight: you think that I'm an atheist because of
Wong? Congratulations Donner, you've just pushed me even further away from Christianity than I was before.
Hey, about knowing about the bible, why don't you explain to me:
1. A rational explanation for the hilarious Tower of Babel story. Tell me, why wasn't Apollo 11 shot down, and why would a bronze age society have the capability to reach the "heavens", and why would god feel threatened by such a tower?
2. A rational explanation as to why the Bible is the best explanation for...stuff compared to the literally infinite possible explanations for our existence. Explain why ANY of the religious works have to be true. Explain why God, if He/She/It/They exist(s), has to fit with ANY religious text rather than be totally different than we can possibly imagine.
3. Why God would code us to produce hormones that attract us to the opposite sex, only to turn around and blast us for feeling lust, a natural emotion that he programmed into us?
4. Why would God tell us to stone to death disobedient teenagers, girls who aren't virgins when they marry (but not boys), that homosexuality is a sin (despite
not being a choice) and that eating shellfish is a sin?
5. Why would God have miscarriages and mental diseases that interfere with our free will, which God considers to be so important that he chose it over simply making us perfect and incapable of evil?
6. Why didn't God send down another prophet in the middle ages to go and tell people "hey guys! Stop burning witches and suppressing the Scientific advancement of humanity!
7. Why would you pray to God to give you a raise, a promotion, or that close parking space in the parking lot, only to turn around and claim that God doesn't have to solve all of our problems for us when talking about starving kids in Africa that don't have any job to get raised in, a promotion to get or any parking lots to park in? Convenient that all of God's miracles are coincidentally ones that can happen by coincidence.
8. Speaking of miracles, why did all of the very blatant miracles such as walking on water conveniently happen when there were no video cameras to authenticate the likely exaggerated over time tales of whatever gullible witnesses were there for the event?