Well, things got too tough for Gumby and he decided to go into hiding AGAIN . Bye, Gumby, see you at some future time ... when you THINK you have something important to say ... but really don't.
That's why I think it is futile to describe God as a loving parent. Either he's psychologically totally different from the average human (hence the pathology by human standards) or he doesn't exist. I believe the latter is the case.--Pole.
Precisely why I don't believe that the Christian God exists. Perhaps a supreme designer of some sort, but certainly not a pathological, uncaring killer.--AlanF
Note that Pole says that the God of the Bible is unloving, and that Alan describes him as a pathological, uncaring killer. And why? All because he placed the responsibility for the people's children being washed away in the Flood etc. where it rightly belonged, namely with that of their parents. Had the parents themselves been worthy of surviving the Flood etc. then their children would've survived as well. The truth is that, rather than God being an "uncaring killer," it was the parents themselves who proved to be unloving and uncaring.
You both are so misadjusted in your viewpoints that it's actually pitiful. And what's so amazing about it all is that you actually consider yourselves to be educated.
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