Sue Hindmarsh wrote:My description of the Christian god as “The Grandfather in the Sky” comes from observing the psychological relationship Christian’s have with their god.
It's a minor criticism, I know, but the plural of a noun doesn't take an apostrophe. I know you are trying to sound erudite, so I'm just trying to help.
Keeping god and man as separate identities allows the Christian to fulfill their emotional desire for a protector – a parent. In young children, such a desire can be understood and accepted. But in adults, it is clearly a case of arrested development.
You sound like a Fascist. And you have entirely misunderstood the many and varied processes by which a person with faith - not just a Christian - comes by that faith and understanding. This, however, is in keeping with your overall lack of analytical abilities. For instance, you seem to miss the fact that faith often comes at a later stage of a person's development with many stages preceding it, and therefore cannot be considered stunted growth.
And what is it with your mixing up grammatical number ("...allows the
Christian [singular] to fulfill
their [plural] emotional desire...") Where you home schooled or something?
Therefore, my description of their god as, "The Grandfather in the Sky" is true, for it accords with the Christian psychology.
But if I am a Christian, as you say, and I tell you that your view does not accord with my view, then you must be incorrect about this. Surely you can follow that. And as you are not a Christian, I would necessarily have a superior understanding of the Christian "psychology" as you arrogantly put it. Therefore, I must be more correct than you are when I state that your assessment of something of which you have no firsthand knowledge reflects more on youself. That is, I suspect you are the one with "arrested" or stunted development.
But this is something anyone who reads these threads would deduce for himself. You seem incapable of perceiving how ignorant your writing sounds. For example, when you proclaim that "the Christian does this or that" or "the Christian is like this or that," it is much the same as if you were to write "the Jew only concerned with money" or "the Negro can run faster because he has an extra bone in his ankle..." (Only you, of course, with your home-schooling, would have said "...because
they have an extra bone in
their ankles...")
One more time for your benefit, Sue, and read it slowly so you get it: making sweeping generalizations about something you know little about just has the effect of making
you look ignorant. Perhaps you should avoid the practice? Or, more likely, you cannot avoid the practice because you
are ignorant?
