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Re:'Sin free Facebook' attracts thousands by humanrebar on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:57AM (#9840027)
To someone who believes in God you cannot choose your god anymore than you can change your race or sexual orientation.

There are clear lines to draw around justice issues like violations of human rights, suffrage, freedom of speech, etc.

But you're painting with a very broad brush if you think it's morally correct to persecute people for believing in a different (or no or any) God. I would even call it closed minded.

Re:'Sin free Facebook' attracts thousands by lmm on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:12PM (#9840154)
I wouldn't attack or persecute people just for believing in any god or none - only when, in the name of their beliefs, they want to harm others (usually, though by no means always, the weak and the minority). I think most antireligous folk would say the same.
Re:'Sin free Facebook' attracts thousands by JoeAltmaier on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:59AM (#9840036)
Hm. Yet people change religion all the time. Claiming 'no true scotsman' isn't fair. That leaves, people choose God.

And we can't call it coincidence that people of one culture mostly choose the same God. Gotta be learned, right? So I'm not buying that line at all.

Re:'Sin free Facebook' attracts thousands by humanrebar on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:11PM (#9840143)
> Yet people change religion all the time.

And people always believe they have God down this time. Someone wouldn't say, "Yeah, I really had God figured out ten years ago but then I converted to East Southern Pentecostal Community Catholicism. That was a bad choice."

> That leaves, people choose God.

The way Christians look at it, God is revealed, not chosen. If you choose your own God, then your God tends to look suspiciously like an idealized version of yourself (or what you wish you were). In other words, to the extent you choose God, you probably have it wrong. That being said, you can't judge people for seeking earnestly.

> And we can't call it coincidence that people of one culture mostly choose the same God.

One culture? Which culture? We're talking about a Brazilian social network. Is that the same culture as the mountains of Kentucky or the streets of Rome?

To be clear, I'm arguing that people should be free to earnestly search for God (or confirm lack thereof) in their own way. Claiming people choose God presupposes He (or she or them) is already a mental construct.

Re:'Sin free Facebook' attracts thousands by waterlesscloud on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:20PM (#9840213)
Pentecostal Catholicism would make for some interesting services.
Re:'Sin free Facebook' attracts thousands by mikeash on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:13PM (#9840156)
What if someone believes in a God who they think is telling them they need to go out and murder people, right now?