This does make some sense. If man is made in the image of God, and we know God is a mass murderer, then we can predict that some men will also be mass murderers. And lo, we have plenty of examples- Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.
“Sure God is not going to change natural law just because we are putting him to the test.”
If God does exist, as soon as we finish saving the world and whatnot, he should be immediately arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity, due to his failure to intervene in the Holocaust, the smallpox epidemics, WWI, etc.
“Twelve poor followers of Christ were able to convert the Roman empire.”
Aye. And Karl Marx must have had divine powers too- how else could a single person, with no political authority, cause a succession of revolutions in some of the largest countries on Earth?
“I could go into the lives of the saints for other examples but I wont.”
How do you know that large parts of their lives weren’t simply made up?
“You call the getting to the probability of nuclear war a simple question?”
Read the literature on heuristics and biases- researchers deliberately use simple questions with factual answers, so that the data unambiguously show the flaws in human reasoning.
“I see man as made in the image of God.”
This does make some sense. If man is made in the image of God, and we know God is a mass murderer, then we can predict that some men will also be mass murderers. And lo, we have plenty of examples- Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.
“Sure God is not going to change natural law just because we are putting him to the test.”
If God does exist, as soon as we finish saving the world and whatnot, he should be immediately arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity, due to his failure to intervene in the Holocaust, the smallpox epidemics, WWI, etc.
“Twelve poor followers of Christ were able to convert the Roman empire.”
Aye. And Karl Marx must have had divine powers too- how else could a single person, with no political authority, cause a succession of revolutions in some of the largest countries on Earth?
“I could go into the lives of the saints for other examples but I wont.”
How do you know that large parts of their lives weren’t simply made up?
“You call the getting to the probability of nuclear war a simple question?”
Read the literature on heuristics and biases- researchers deliberately use simple questions with factual answers, so that the data unambiguously show the flaws in human reasoning.