Posted: Apr 15, 2019 12:09 am
aufbahrung wrote:This could equally apply to atheists with all the nukes, climate change and half-wittery around. Are the end times a useful fiction, a big invisible coming stick to keep folks in line, or something both believers and non-believers can appreciate these days? Representing a sort of common ground?
Nukes and climate change are real.
How is that equivalent to believing that a magical being outside of time and place is just about to wind up *his* cosmic plan for the universe and mortals therein?
Keep folks in line with what? I've never had any authority attempt to use the existence of nukes to keep me in line.
Drive on the correct side of the road or nukes might fall and wipe out substantial quantities of the Earth's biosphere, said no one ever.
I think you're conflating concepts that have no business being together, and so the onus would necessarily be on you to substantiate any links between them before they can become a serious argument to respond to.