the emperor’s new clothes
Here’s a free donut to chew on: God and His word wins all challenges by not showing up. (Colorstorm)
Let’s think about what the Christian god God ‘wins’ by not showing up.
Yes, everything!
- We can’t see him, hear him, touch him, smell him, measure him or detect him in any way. Christians are still convinced he’s there. He wins by not showing up!
- Millions of people will tell you they’ve spoken with him. But he tells them all wildly different things and he never speaks to more than one person at a time, how odd. He wins by not showing up!
- Millions of people pray to him to ask him to make a difference in their lives. Any changes observed are at the same rate (random) as in the population at large. He wins by not showing up!
- I ask Christians to take part in a simple challenge to test how open to interpretation their Bible is. Several Christians comment, not one of them joins the challenge. And their god wins by not showing up! Eh? Not sure how that works. But thanks for my free donut.
So, anyone unclear why this post is called the Emperor’s New Clothes?
Funny how these gods need humans to perform their wishes and they generally sound like the person talking about them. Very strange…
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The chameleon god God?
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Go on, tell me.
And to Colourstorm’s comment: you can’t talk to someone in an adult manner (as an adult) if that is their professed attitude to reality.
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Why are you subbing if you’ve already commented? Is that to tick the box? I don’t think I even understood what you mean the first couple of times your wrote that, it’s just sinking in ….
Tell you what?
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Tell me the meaning of the title.
Yes, subbing because i forgot to tick the box.
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Really? Sigh. Everyone’s excited about this thing they can’t see?
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Oh, I see.
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What were you expecting? ‘Oh, I see’ is loaded.
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What, you want me to explain the joke? I’m starting to suspect you didn’t find a bottle of rum… Or have you finished it already?
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No rum yet. The occasional caffeine high is the best I can manage, and you can imagine how limited that is on our muddy water. So did I explain a joke to you only to need a joke explained to me?
#DoubleJokeDoh (I’m going to save these just for you, not sure why)
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I must be honest, I have never actually fully understood a damn thing Colorstorm writes, and from what I can gather neither has Arch. I realise this may be because we are a pair of remedial half wits but it seems strange that his chum, Wally, who comes across as dumber than soup, cheers him from the bleachers?
Maybe there is a special Fundamentalist Code?
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That’s your best comment ever!
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Still laughing ….
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I join the ranks of those who don’t understand him. I asked Violet to translate.
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I forgot to finish that task. I’ve been up all night working on it and will reveal on the appropriate post.
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Please help. I may soon be in a position to understand what he wants to say
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I got a ‘sensible’ answer from him 🙂
You don’t ask the right questions 😉
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No. You just managed to pick a rare lucid moment – probably the same time his nurse had just administered his medication by enema.
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I agree entirely Ark.
As someone who was steeped in Christianity what he says seems bizarre to me. I should point out that I know many other Fundamentalist Christians who talk in ways normal people can understand. Even more bizarre are the cheer squad who seem to uncritically acclaim every one of his ‘words of wisdom’.
Sorry Violet you had warned me not to talk about CS, though I think I can get away with it here as it is the topic of the post.
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Violet,
Just recently I bought the movie, “The Wizard of Oz” (one of my all-time favourites!) I have shown it several times to our grandchildren who live close by (ages 3 – 6) and they love it. All of our grandkids are being brought up in secular homes.
I am hoping that, if one of them ever asks, “Nannie, is there a god?” I will be able to respond by asking, “Remember the wizard?” 🙂
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Great idea! I’ll need to get it as well.
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Nice pic of a bird there Vwisp, but tkx for quoting me exactly.
You desire to (as it were) have God pour down fire from heaven to answer your petty challenges, or as Herod stupidly wanted ‘to see a miracle’ to satiate an unbelieving heart, you also have no clue that His silence is the answer you seek. As I said, you know little of the scriptures when rightly divided.
What He has ALREADY said to Daniel, Abraham, Ruth, Esther, Nathanael, Moses, Mary, Martha, Peter, James, John, Paul, Timothy, and whosoever will, has been proven and verified in the scriptural narrative, and is fine by me. ‘It is written’ is the sufficient proof you deny.
The word of God leaves the perfect sting.
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Colourstorm,
The Owner of All Infernal Names requires no excuse for why He is undetectable. He desires His anonymity, He cherishes it, and protects it quite carefully.
What’s the excuse for your Middle Eastern god choosing invisibility?
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Well, jz, at least your friend said she wanted to learn………….
But invisible? Ha.
‘For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are CLEARLY SEEN, being UNDERSTOOD by the things that are MADE, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,’
As I said, scripture answers every claim, shuts every mouth, and leaves the perfect sting.
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Mmm, I don’t actually see where you have explained why, exactly, your god is invisible and undetectable.
Care to try again? 😉
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I think I’ll ask Wally for a translation.
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Now see, I think your first sentence comes close to explaining the problem:
“Nice pic of a bird there Vwisp, but tkx for quoting me exactly.”
What does the first phrase have to do with the second phrase, and why the “but”? What exception does your second phrase raise regarding your first phrase? That’s the point of using the word but in that format.
“I love vegetables, but I don’t like brussel sprouts.”
“I drive a large car because of my dogs, but what I really love is small convertibles.”
This isn’t a case of surgery to the prefrontal cortex- the word but simply implies an exception to the previous statement. If you can’t grasp that most basic of notions of language and communication, are you sure you should be spending time commenting on anything at all in public? Perhaps a refresher course on the usage of everyday words would be more productive.
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It’s obvious why the but is there. Nice pic of a bird, but anyway I’m not here to talk about that so I’ll get onto the crux of the matter which deals with my quote … blah blah. Simple really. A little imagination is all that’s called for. Pretty much like imaginary gods.
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Yes, it’s all about filling in the blanks, making random leaps, and entering the mind of a deluded lion. 😉
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“‘It is written’ is the sufficient proof you deny.”
Why accept that as proof?? Did Allah not say the same and better??
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Actually God is never mentioned in the Book of Esther.
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@peter
One need not always mention the sun when speaking of daylight……………..but the hand of God as seen through Mordecai and Hadassah, (Esther), as opposed to the wickedness of Haman and the hatred of the Israeli people is plain enough.
(I wrote a post on Esther using Netanyahu as a springboard, and the comments from others are superb)
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Looks like every deity’s a winner here, VW. None of them show up. I hope you have enough prizes for them…
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Excellent point sorely missing from the conclusion. I hope the Christians read down to here and do a little ‘oops’ that they’ll then brush aside …
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Well, your latest post disappeared, but it remains in my email. The bee photo is a smasher.
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