Monday, December 19, 2011

Don't Shoot The Messenger

AITOOW thinks that people who sanctimoniously tell you "There But For The Grace Of God Go I" are all but incriminating themselves? What is their shame? And once again how does this sentiment jibe with free will? If God intercedes, there can't be absolute free will. And this statement (the but for part) seems to posit that only the grace of God can keep bad things from happening to you. Your actions are superfluous. Such as not calling out a loser/sinner. So you have no control over your exhortations any way and others shouldn't reprimand you for them. But, they can't help doing so for the same reasons (maybe God wants you to know their shame and that's why he makes them say it), so the fault for teasing people that God disadvantaged lies with God. He must want you to tease them and the people who use the phrase. Now I get it.

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