On The Box Question #81: Fire Insurance

Using this one as my entry for the final event in the 2011 Pwnage Olympics.

Responding to an invitation to present questions to Superstitionists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6FH0C74Dys

Transcript (sort of -- I tried to ad-lib this one)
http://defensiblegod.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-questions-to-new-on-box-show.html

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[GreatBigBore]

@ozmoroid "Some say that without Jesus, there is no morality. I say that without fear, there are no Christians." --Me

[GreatBigBore]

@JMcH "You never ask anything."

At last, after 81 videos, I finally get an answer. Thank you very much. Your glarlingly false claim that I never ask anything is an excellent answer, along with your equally false claim that I "just quote mine". This demonstrates very clearly that you have no answers for any of these questions. If you did, you could have provided an answer. Instead, you had to lie, just like all superstitionists. Why can't Yahweh's message be spread without falsehoods?

[Sines314]

@GreatBigBore If you haven' seen it since this post, Matt Dilahunty does a pretty good analogy with Yahweh as the ultimate mob boss.

[drfoxcourt]

Belief in God is exactly some kind of fire insurance, but with interesting twists. There is no insurance company that will pay up! The people selling the insurance policy are gangsters and madmen. 

[RyuDarragh]

Justice: So, torture for all eternity for a lie about not eating the last piece of chicken or stealing that pack of cigarettes is a proper response? Disproportionate response is a symptom of a psychological disorder, not divinity.

[GreatBigBore]

@JMcH I'm not interested in arguing. I'm interested in reaching you. I think you might be on the threshold of something. I know that you're offended when I ask questions about Yahweh, and you probably believe that offense is my intention. But that's not the case. My questions about Yahweh are honest questions. Like this one: if Yahweh cares about truth, then why are you shrinking back from the truth? Why would you be afraid of the truth? I'm not mocking; I understand fear. But don't fear truth.

[GreatBigBore]

@JMcH "I kind of doubt you'll bother reevaluating the videos and your position"

I will go through the videos and my position step-by-step with you, with a fully open mind, if you'll just honestly answer the question I asked before: how many would convert if you left all fear out of the conversation and told people they have to change their sex lives? It's not the number of times hell is mentioned; it's whether evangelism would work with NO mentions of hell. That's why I say "fulcrum".

[JMcH]

@GreatBigBore - This will be short and to the point and I'm not going to argue endlessly with you about it. The "fulcrum," as you put it," is God/Jesus, not Hell (or fear of Hell). Rewatch the videos and listen carefully to them. How many times is Hell mentioned vs. God/Jesus? If Hell were the "fulcrum," it would be mentioned far more often.

Take that as you will. I kind of doubt you'll bother reevaluating the videos and your position, though. In any case, I'm through now. Take care!

[NoFaithNoPain]

Where did this "hell" shit come from anyway? Who invented it? Is it really in the Bible? I don't recall it in the Old Testament and Jeezy Baby didn't say it, so who did?

[JMcH]

@GreatBigBore - Of course, but I have other obligations first.

[GreatBigBore]

@JMcH I hope we're still talking. This seems important.

[CMO999]

@JMcH No, avoiding jail is not the only reason to obey the law, just like avoiding hell is not the only reason to become Christian. I often find myself having these sorts of conversations with Christians where I have to say very simple obvious things, like you are playing a game of denying reality for some reason. Why is that?