crazyml
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ORIGINAL: Politesub53 It is akin to saying "God intended that he had a car which he crashed" and selectively suggesting god only meant the first part. The longer quote is "And I came to realise life is a gift from god, and I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, it is something God intended to happen." Now it's as plain as day. The subject of the sentence is "life". There is no way you can credibly parse this sentence otherwise. There most certainly is, for two obvious reasons. Right, we're parsing a fucking sentence here, so please let's focus on what the man said, and what inferences we can logically draw from actual words he said. quote:
1 Physiology determines that there can be no gift without impregnation, hence this god is providing a gift to the male because you have to believe that this god, if capable of determining the impregnation, then it is also responsible for the rape, it intended it, the whole process of conception, to occur. 2. For anyone to believe that the conception is a gift from their god they would obviously also believe that it determines everything, it is all powerful, and therefore the god must also be responsible for the rape. And for any violence that occurred. Oh but no.... you chose not to look at the words he said, you chose to make a theological argument. And... I'm willing to bet that you've not much of a background in theology have you. You appear to have no clue whatsoever about the concept of "free will" in Theology. quote:
One cannot ignore the implications and logical concepts evolving from the statement. The complexity of communication is not solely based on simplistic grammar analysis as you are well aware. God is speaking! Simples! You may regard basic English comprehension as absurdly pernickity, but the claim is that this man said that "God intended Rape to happen", that claim is based on these words... "And I came to realise life is a gift from god, and I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, it is something God intended to happen." Logically, there is no implication in this sentence that god intended rape to happen. Any claim that it does is either a willful twisting of the meaning, or an ignorance of the English language. You cannot come to any conclusions about how the speaker feels about free will, predetermination, or the extent of god's omnipotence, except that he believes that life it a gift from god. Now he may be a proper asshat and believe that "AIDS is gods punishment etc etc" but you can't infer that from the words that have been quoted.
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