Atheist vs Cartoon
Oct. 25th, 2012 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skull_bearerI saw a cartoon on a friend of a friend's wall, she's a Christian, and it showed two people (creatures, whatever) having a conversation.
#1: I sometimes think of asking god why there's all this cruelty in the workld, killing, hunger, genocide...
#2 Why don't you?
#1 I'm afraid he'll ask me the same thing.
It's taken me a while to unpack why that cartoon made me so pig-biting mad. Firstly, I'm not a fan of having my views misrepresented ts a strawman shitout like that one is never going to get on my good side. Secondly, this makes god such a raving arsehole that I feel angry just having him mentioned. Thirdly... I don't know, I'm still unpacking. What I do know is that having an all powerful, all knowing (thankfully fictional) god asking what you're going to do about the mess he's made just pushes my buttons like crazy.
#1: I sometimes think of asking god why there's all this cruelty in the workld, killing, hunger, genocide...
#2 Why don't you?
#1 I'm afraid he'll ask me the same thing.
It's taken me a while to unpack why that cartoon made me so pig-biting mad. Firstly, I'm not a fan of having my views misrepresented ts a strawman shitout like that one is never going to get on my good side. Secondly, this makes god such a raving arsehole that I feel angry just having him mentioned. Thirdly... I don't know, I'm still unpacking. What I do know is that having an all powerful, all knowing (thankfully fictional) god asking what you're going to do about the mess he's made just pushes my buttons like crazy.
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Date: 2012-10-25 06:33 pm (UTC)As to the message of that cartoon though... I kind of like it! In its effect, it's practically as close to atheism as a Christian can get: humans have made this world a mess, so humans need to fix it. From this absent, uninvolved god (and that's what I'm seeing here), it's only a small step to no god at all, and the behaviour consequently expected from the reader (fix what is wrong, because there is no god-given meaning to suffering) is the same.
Just my two cents. ;)