"Martin Willett" <mwillett.org@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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A major rule of good management and general discipline is to praise in
public and chastise in private.

Another is to make rules clear and punishments certain.

Another is to make punishments follow judgment and the original offence
swiftly, as justice delayed is justice denied and no good ever comes from
brooding over an impending but inevitable punishment.

The Christian god seems to break all these common-sense rules of good
man-management, these basic elements of parent craft.

yea, the christian god certainly is an idiotic jerk

Poor cry baby Martin upset about the powers of God, does Martin think
these here words of his-- might take the power of God away?

Another example of an ignorant person trying to overcome God. There are
many types of low-life's in the world--God knows!!!

What great works be Martin doing? Please Marty tell us here on this
message board about some of the precious fruits of your works? Can you
tell us the hope of your calling? Tell us of perhaps your great mercy
or charity or kindness that you show others? Please hurry Marty tell us
before you pass on into the next life. My spirit tells me you are a
very old man.

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Martin Willett wrote:

A major rule of good management and general discipline is to praise in
public and chastise in private.

Another is to make rules clear and punishments certain.

Another is to make punishments follow judgment and the original offence
swiftly, as justice delayed is justice denied and no good ever comes
from brooding over an impending but inevitable punishment.

The Christian god seems to break all these common-sense rules of good
man-management, these basic elements of parent craft.

What kind of a disciplinarian is this god? How would you judge a parent
who made rules for their family and told them to only one apparently
favourite child, never made any show of backing up that child, never
showed up at all for all practical purposes but communicated entirely by
private telephone conversations behind closed doors to the one child but
promised to give all his children a sound beating at some unspecified
future date if the children didn't proclaim their love for him?

Such behaviour, or rather lack of behaviour, would have the appropriate
authorities leaping in to save those neglected and abused children. We
are both the children and the authorities. It is time we took
responsibility for ourselves, made our own rules, had our own system of
justice and stopped listening to the tales of the absent tyrant who is
said to love us and yet would see us face infinite torture for simply
not believing he exists.

How can anybody take this story seriously? How can anybody believe that
a god can communicate with some special people directly, prophets, and
all of these prophets would know the stories of the previous prophets
and nobody who didn't know the stories would be able to receive the
messages. Come on, think about that one for moment without "knowing"
that there must be a perfectly good explanation even if you can't
actually think what it might be. It stinks. Doesn't it?

It stinks in just the same way as stories about children's invisible
friends stink. It is an extraordinary claim which must surely only be
believed if there was extraordinary proof. Why does Mr Snuggles only
speak to the only child who can see him? Why doesn't Mr Snuggles ever
talk to people who don't think he's real? Why does Mr Snuggles not know
about the invisible friends other children have? Have you ever known one
child's invisible friend talk to another child's invisible friend? It is
strange that being invisible and only talking to children who believe in
them is something invisible friends (and one-and-only-gods) have in
common and yet they never seem to talk to each other.

Have you ever asked a Christian why their invisible friend doesn't talk
to Abdul's invisible friend? The answer seems to be that they deny the
existence (or identity) of each other's invisible friend and dismiss
each other's "experiences", "answered prayers" and "miracles". Just like
children.
--

Martin Willett


http://mwillett.org/

Poor cry baby Martin upset about the powers of God, does Martin think
these here words of his-- might take the power of God away?

Poor cry baby Martin upset about the powers of God?