Every time I see someone talk about intelligent design I just think about how our throat has two tubes: in one of them you have to put stuff in so you don’t die, but if you put even a little bit of stuff in the other one you die.
An all powerful being that controls energy, time and matter itself … decides to make a perfect biological human body with an autonomous identity, intelligence and self control … that breaks down and dies in less than 80 years … then encourages these individuals to procreate (but not to enjoy it, even though he designed it to be very enjoyable)
The highest part of man is the one that is closest to god. The soul, clearly. The soul can partially grasp divine attributes like morality, knowledge, righteousness, etc.
That makes sense, I always just assumed that most christians took it literally, ie humans physically looking like their god, a sort of patriarchal egoism. Thus paintings of god in the form of a human man.
I would add, that the old testament has been interpreted allegorically since before Christianity, since in the Roman Empire, Jews that were civilised had some difficulty accepting the rather nonsensical elements of the archaic books.
This sort of makes sense. The bible is a collection of books that are very different in style, so it makes sense that some are understood poetically, or allegorically, while others are quite literal.
So these seemingly silly elements of the bible were literally never understood literally by Christians, until the reformation, at least.
So while it may seem like modern Christians are trying to reinterpret the bible to avoid contradictions, that are caused by the idiocy of the ancient and medieval people, the reality is literally the exact opposite.
Christianity is a child of the Jewish mysticism and Greek rationality. For someone that understands philosophy the idea of a god with a body, that looks like a human is absurd.
God is not in space, not in time, since according to Christian theology, these were created with the universe, so they are not independent from the creation. Before that(not in the temporal sense), there was only God.
Honestly, the greatest argument against intelligent design is the human body. If I was created by a god, he’s either an idiot or actively malicious.
Erogenous zones in the waste tube. Also religious people: putting things in the waste tube for pleasure is also a sin.
Every time I see someone talk about intelligent design I just think about how our throat has two tubes: in one of them you have to put stuff in so you don’t die, but if you put even a little bit of stuff in the other one you die.
An all powerful being that controls energy, time and matter itself … decides to make a perfect biological human body with an autonomous identity, intelligence and self control … that breaks down and dies in less than 80 years … then encourages these individuals to procreate (but not to enjoy it, even though he designed it to be very enjoyable)
Isn’t the god made the human in his own image? Does it mean that the God is badly designed too…
God does not have a body, obviously. This is not what is meant by this.
Well then what the fuck is meant by that
The highest part of man is the one that is closest to god. The soul, clearly. The soul can partially grasp divine attributes like morality, knowledge, righteousness, etc.
That makes sense, I always just assumed that most christians took it literally, ie humans physically looking like their god, a sort of patriarchal egoism. Thus paintings of god in the form of a human man.
I would add, that the old testament has been interpreted allegorically since before Christianity, since in the Roman Empire, Jews that were civilised had some difficulty accepting the rather nonsensical elements of the archaic books.
This sort of makes sense. The bible is a collection of books that are very different in style, so it makes sense that some are understood poetically, or allegorically, while others are quite literal.
So these seemingly silly elements of the bible were literally never understood literally by Christians, until the reformation, at least.
So while it may seem like modern Christians are trying to reinterpret the bible to avoid contradictions, that are caused by the idiocy of the ancient and medieval people, the reality is literally the exact opposite.
Christianity is a child of the Jewish mysticism and Greek rationality. For someone that understands philosophy the idea of a god with a body, that looks like a human is absurd.
God is not in space, not in time, since according to Christian theology, these were created with the universe, so they are not independent from the creation. Before that(not in the temporal sense), there was only God.
Well, the human body is imperfect due to the fall, it was only perfect in the Garden of Eden.
Mfw eating an apple makes a nerve loop around the aorta.
Giraffes must have fallen far.
Richard Dawkins is a schmuck but that one time he dissected a giraffe on TV was pretty fucking cool.
He what? That sounds horrible. But also a bit funny:
Cuts open a giraffe, blood on his hands as he just tore out its aorta: “THERE IS NO GOD!”