Well ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got it. We’ve got a confession from Daniel about what his goal is with these blogs. He admits he’s here to push his agenda by any means necessary. He concedes that the only way he can form his argument is by going through the Bible and deliberately picking out only the verses that fit into the narrative he’s trying to weave, which is that Christianity is crazy and God is equivalent to Hitler. Don’t believe me? His exact words: “It doesn't matter; the problem is that he's immoral at all! That's why my entire job is to cherry-pick!” (And no Daniel, this concept isn’t subjective. It’s fairly easy to see which one of us is looking at Scripture as a whole and which one of us is pushing his own twisted version of it.)
While professing to be a defender of progressivism, Daniel seems to forget a very important part of our culture, a concept known as “innocent until proven guilty.” To him, God is already guilty, and it’s up to us to prove Him innocent. Well no Daniel, this is not how this works. It’s up to YOU to prove your assertions and claims. The burden of evidence lies on YOU, not on us. I mean the way our blogs are set up give this away completely. You are the PRO side to your (general) argument that God is Hitler and Christians are stupid, ignorant buffoons. We are the CON side. If we were in a court, you would be the prosecution and we would be the defense. You provide a claim and we provide the rebuttal. This is how this works.
But Daniel doesn’t want to play by the rules. Why not? Because he can’t provide enough evidence that God is similar in nature to those evil, atheist dictators that slaughtered people by the millions (did I mention that these people were atheists?) Daniel throws up a cadre of Scriptures, twists them inside out, claims they all prove what he’s saying, and then has the gall to accuse us of not rebutting his arguments??? What did he expect? That he provides a couple hyperlinks to Biblegateway here and there and we’re expected to write on for pages and pages dissecting every single verse? We’re not idiots Daniel! You generally label groups of Scripture as proving your point, without any sort of specific evidence and detailed analysis, and we respond in kind, with general statements as to what you’re engaging in (distortion and mockery.) If you want to convince us all that we secretly worship Hitler, you’re going to have to do a lot better than to cite a verse and simply declare that it proves women are property (which is a concept that we’ve already shown to be false in previous blog posts.)
As to why God doesn’t provide his own culture to humans? Because He transcends culture. Christianity isn’t limited to one single way of life. Millions of different people around the world are Christians. No, not all of them are Americans and have an American way of looking at the world, but each of them worships God uniquely and within their culture. But to be honest, I think all of us are beginning to get confused a bit. Daniel seems to be getting angry that a being that he believes doesn’t exist, isn’t doing things his way. God doesn’t say the things Daniel wants Him to say, He doesn’t act the way Daniel wants Him to act, and He doesn’t do what Daniel wants Him to do. Daniel is basically throwing a tantrum and yelling that “If God was real, He would do things MY WAY!” It’s like claiming your math teacher doesn’t exist because she gave you word problems instead of multiplication tables. It’s absurd (and a little funny.)
In conclusion, we see Daniel more and more frustrated. He doesn’t seem to be able to convince anyone to agree with his radical interpretations and insulting premises. He blames everything under the sun for this: ignorance, stupidity, a closed mind, etc. Maybe it’s something else Daniel. Perhaps Christians aren’t all that stupid and God isn’t actually an evil dictator. Just some food for thought.
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