What's so great about innocence?
Posted on: December 20, 2008 - 11:24pm
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What's so great about innocence?
So there's a long list of theistic concepts that, if you look at them though a rational eye, fall flat on their face. One of the concepts that crossed my mind recently is Innocence. So many seem to think that 'loosing ones innocence' is a bad thing. We 'fell' from the grace of God when we lost our innocense... but what's the big deal? A lion is 'innocent', that dosen't keep it from chewing your head off. A baby is innocent, but imagine the horrors a year old child could do if by some unlikely mutation it were as strong as an adult? Innocence is just the state of something when it has no controll over its self.
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Yeah. It's another theist conflation. "Innocence" from "the things of the world" is not the same as innocence of a crime. Being found innocent of wrongdoing is good, of course. Being inexperienced, on the other hand, has no intrinsic value.
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Never mind that it never really seems to work out that way. Reality intrudes because... well, it's reality. (which leads to the whole "god will test your faith" thing)
"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray
Yeah. Is that sumbitch ever rude.
"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray
...Born again virgins???