Heidegger

In a message dated 27/02/2007 16:38:27 GMT Standard Time,
silicaceous at yahoo.com writes:

I think this sums up my point of view, also written by Nikos Kazansakis, the
Greek, in The Saviours of God. In my mind God is not an inescapable
Deduction of the my Mind. At the most maybe a valid inference.

“My God is not All-holy. He is full of cruelty and savage justice, and he
chooses the best mercilessly. He is without compassion; he does not trouble
himself about men or animals; nor does he care for virtues and ideas. He loves
all these things for a moment, then smashes them eternally and passes on. “

Jud:
God as a childish psychopath is not new - that is the way he comes across in
the bible anyway. Condemning the whole of humanity just because some silly
broad pinched one of his worn-eaten apples! Give me Idi Amin or Ghenghis Khan
any day! What a turd! What a laugh! What a monster! What a bloody tragedy
for mankind!

*How DARE they enjoy a bit of knookie - turn the bastards to salt! Kill
all those xxx-ites! Destroy the city of the xxx-ites - Blow your phalic ram’s
horns and scramble of the ruins of Jericho’s walls - and KILL THE BASTARDS!!!

The Jews had more blood on their swords than the annual rainfall in
Manchester.

Religious people seem to like a bit of rough-trade. As the Archbishop of
Canterbury said on the BBC4 yesterday morning - *Christianity is obsessed with
sex.*

This is also interesting… an atheist from the second century AD addressing
the sheep…

The Octavius, which is here translated, is a supposed argument between the
heathen Caecilius and the Christian Octavius written[ by Minucius Felix] about
the year I98. AD…

“Neither do you at least take experience from things present, how the
fruitless expectations of vain promise deceive you. Consider, wretched creatures,
(from your lot) while you are yet living, what is threatening you after death.
Behold, a portion of you–and, as you declare, the larger and better
portion–are in want, are cold, are labouring in hard work and hunger; and God
suffers it, He feigns; He either is not willing or not able to assist His people;
and thus He is either weak or inequitable. Thou, who dreamest over a
posthumous immortality, when thou art shaken by danger, when thou art consumed with
fever, when thou art torn with pain, dost thou not then feel thy real
condition? Dost thou not then acknowledge thy frailty? Poor wretch, art thou
unwillingly convinced of thine infirmity, and wilt not confess it? But I omit matters
that are common to all alike. Lo, for you there are threats, punishments,
tortures, and crosses; and that no longer as objects of adoration, but as
tortures to be undergone; fires also, which you both predict and fear. Where is
that God who is able to help you when you come to life again, since he cannot
help you while you are in this life? Do not the Romans, without any help from
your God, govern, reign, have the enjoyment of the whole world, and have
dominion over you? But you in the meantime, in suspense and anxiety, are
abstaining from respectable enjoyments. You do not visit exhibitions; you have no
concern in public displays; you reject the public banquets, and abhor the sacred
contests; the meats previously tasted by, and the drinks made a libation of
upon, the altars. Thus you stand in dread of the gods whom you deny. You do
not wreath your heads with flowers; you do not grace your bodies with odours;
you reserve unguents for funeral rites; you even refuse garlands to your
sepulchres–pallid, trembling beings, worthy of the pity even of our gods! Thus,
wretched as you are, you neither rise again, nor do you live in the meanwhile.
Therefore, if you have any wisdom or modesty, cease from prying into the
regions of the sky, and the destinies and secrets of the world: it is sufficient
to look before your feet, especially for untaught, uncultivated, boorish,
rustic people: they who have no capacity for understanding civil matters, are
much more denied the ability to discuss divine.

regards,

Jud Evans.

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Posted on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
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