Day 115g: The beginning of Dogma’s End … (August 22, 2019)
It remains to this day an abject astonishment that I almost received more empathy & assistance from this fully abandoned church than the rest of the American churches I encountered combined. Is this a premonition of how the church will continue to devolve away from The Way of Christ and towards the Unway of Paul, or is this a sign that the church itself is finally coming to an all-too-timely end? I wonder …
“It is perfectly possible to explain how the Universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, quiet & hiding away. Come to think of it, if He is alive and keeping out of sight, it’s probably because he’s ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they are promoting in His holy name. I mean, if I were Him, I’d want nothing to do with any of them … And in truth, if there is a God – at least a God who is in any way worth worshiping, then I think it highly unlikely that He would have such uneasy vanity or abject pettiness as to be in any way slighted or offended or even mildly annoyed by those who for whatever reason doubt or decry His existence. Right?” ~ inspired by Philip Pullman & Bertrand Russell
“Is God willing to prevent evil & callousness & cruelty, but not able?
… If so, then He is not omnipotent.
Is God able, but not willing to prevent the same?
… If so, then He is malevolent.
Is God both able and willing to prevent them?
… If so, then whence cometh they and all like them?
Is God neither able nor willing to thwart their victories?
… If so, then why call Him God at all?”
~ via Epicurus
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