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Hostage to fear
RE: Hostage to fear
If he let just one person ever starve, I'd think he was a prick. He created the whole "eat or you die" system in the first place. He didn't have to do it that way. And he can provide food for free. Create it by magic. The fact that he doesn't, and watches someone starve, makes it murder by neglect. He doesn't get a free pass because he's a god.

Unless he's not actually anything like as powerful as people suggest, and just pretended he created all this stuff and made the rules...

Additional: I presume God would be able to destroy himself if he so wished. If not, that's yet another way I'm more powerful than him. He can't lie, he can't do evil, he can't prove he exists, he can't forgive without pretending to sacrifice a part of himself, can't kill himself, can't stop rapes even when he's present...

If he can destroy himself, then I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume that he has done so. He would have had to wait however many billions of years for us to even turn up. That's got to grate, even for a god. Probably topped himself long ago. It would explain a lot.
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Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 17, 2015 at 11:47 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Nope - June 17, 2015 at 12:10 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 17, 2015 at 12:25 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 17, 2015 at 12:16 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by LastPoet - June 17, 2015 at 12:40 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 17, 2015 at 1:05 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Pyrrho - June 17, 2015 at 3:05 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 17, 2015 at 12:41 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Tonus - June 17, 2015 at 12:46 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Pyrrho - June 17, 2015 at 12:48 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 17, 2015 at 12:50 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 17, 2015 at 2:23 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 17, 2015 at 2:53 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 17, 2015 at 2:59 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by SteelCurtain - June 17, 2015 at 3:03 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Longhorn - June 17, 2015 at 3:07 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 17, 2015 at 8:48 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 17, 2015 at 10:15 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 18, 2015 at 12:58 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 18, 2015 at 11:24 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 19, 2015 at 5:26 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 20, 2015 at 9:29 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 20, 2015 at 11:00 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 21, 2015 at 12:08 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 21, 2015 at 12:50 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 21, 2015 at 9:06 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 21, 2015 at 9:33 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 21, 2015 at 4:54 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 23, 2015 at 5:56 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Simon Moon - June 23, 2015 at 6:11 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 23, 2015 at 6:18 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Simon Moon - June 24, 2015 at 3:14 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 24, 2015 at 1:59 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 24, 2015 at 5:31 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 24, 2015 at 5:48 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 24, 2015 at 7:29 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 24, 2015 at 7:38 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 24, 2015 at 8:34 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 16, 2015 at 10:04 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 16, 2015 at 10:18 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 16, 2015 at 10:40 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Nope - July 17, 2015 at 7:38 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 17, 2015 at 9:10 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 17, 2015 at 9:41 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 17, 2015 at 9:48 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 17, 2015 at 10:19 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 18, 2015 at 7:50 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Nope - July 19, 2015 at 8:42 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 19, 2015 at 11:49 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Pyrrho - July 19, 2015 at 1:09 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 19, 2015 at 9:15 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Wyrd of Gawd - July 19, 2015 at 9:45 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 19, 2015 at 6:38 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 19, 2015 at 9:27 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 19, 2015 at 10:39 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 20, 2015 at 6:42 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 20, 2015 at 7:38 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Pyrrho - July 20, 2015 at 9:34 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 21, 2015 at 7:53 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 21, 2015 at 9:03 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by dyresand - July 19, 2015 at 11:57 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 19, 2015 at 12:46 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by dyresand - July 19, 2015 at 12:50 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by dyresand - July 19, 2015 at 1:06 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 19, 2015 at 11:33 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 20, 2015 at 12:02 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 20, 2015 at 12:14 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 20, 2015 at 11:15 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 17, 2015 at 8:51 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 17, 2015 at 9:09 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 17, 2015 at 9:19 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by ignoramus - June 17, 2015 at 9:39 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Exian - June 17, 2015 at 9:57 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 17, 2015 at 10:53 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 17, 2015 at 10:06 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 18, 2015 at 9:13 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 18, 2015 at 11:30 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 19, 2015 at 6:33 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 17, 2015 at 10:22 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Jenny A - June 17, 2015 at 10:43 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Longhorn - June 18, 2015 at 1:08 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 18, 2015 at 1:12 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 18, 2015 at 3:56 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 18, 2015 at 9:25 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 18, 2015 at 9:31 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Jenny A - June 18, 2015 at 11:49 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 18, 2015 at 11:35 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 18, 2015 at 11:56 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 19, 2015 at 12:44 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 19, 2015 at 11:47 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 20, 2015 at 12:17 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 19, 2015 at 1:57 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 19, 2015 at 4:50 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 7:16 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 19, 2015 at 4:33 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 19, 2015 at 8:58 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Pyrrho - June 19, 2015 at 9:40 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 19, 2015 at 10:06 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 19, 2015 at 10:28 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 19, 2015 at 10:35 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 19, 2015 at 4:03 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 4:38 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 19, 2015 at 4:52 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 19, 2015 at 8:09 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 19, 2015 at 8:33 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Exian - June 19, 2015 at 7:25 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 19, 2015 at 8:47 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 19, 2015 at 8:04 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 19, 2015 at 8:17 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 19, 2015 at 8:45 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 19, 2015 at 9:31 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 19, 2015 at 10:54 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 19, 2015 at 10:57 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 19, 2015 at 11:50 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by SteelCurtain - June 19, 2015 at 11:29 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 20, 2015 at 12:01 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 20, 2015 at 12:20 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 20, 2015 at 12:18 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 20, 2015 at 12:35 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - June 20, 2015 at 1:11 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 20, 2015 at 2:30 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 20, 2015 at 9:30 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 20, 2015 at 11:44 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - June 21, 2015 at 1:58 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 21, 2015 at 2:07 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 21, 2015 at 3:05 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 21, 2015 at 5:05 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Pyrrho - June 21, 2015 at 12:11 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 21, 2015 at 12:20 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 21, 2015 at 5:01 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 22, 2015 at 4:21 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Minimalist - June 24, 2015 at 2:18 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by tonechaser77 - June 24, 2015 at 5:06 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by iburnwater - June 24, 2015 at 8:46 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 24, 2015 at 11:32 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 25, 2015 at 12:22 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Pyrrho - June 25, 2015 at 9:55 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 26, 2015 at 4:02 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by SuperEddy - June 26, 2015 at 9:54 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by ignoramus - June 25, 2015 at 1:49 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by dyresand - June 25, 2015 at 10:01 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - June 25, 2015 at 5:31 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 26, 2015 at 11:29 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by SuperEddy - June 27, 2015 at 8:03 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - June 28, 2015 at 2:05 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Longhorn - July 17, 2015 at 4:44 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by ignoramus - July 17, 2015 at 5:14 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by ignoramus - July 17, 2015 at 7:50 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Nope - July 17, 2015 at 8:15 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Nope - July 17, 2015 at 8:11 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 17, 2015 at 8:22 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Godschild - July 17, 2015 at 10:51 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - July 17, 2015 at 11:31 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Godschild - July 20, 2015 at 6:05 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Crossless1 - July 20, 2015 at 6:07 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 20, 2015 at 6:42 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Godschild - July 20, 2015 at 8:43 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 20, 2015 at 9:13 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 21, 2015 at 7:24 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 21, 2015 at 2:54 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 22, 2015 at 4:53 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 22, 2015 at 5:02 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 23, 2015 at 4:08 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 23, 2015 at 10:41 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 24, 2015 at 4:18 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 24, 2015 at 4:34 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 24, 2015 at 6:07 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 24, 2015 at 6:21 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 24, 2015 at 7:45 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 24, 2015 at 8:08 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 24, 2015 at 8:10 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 24, 2015 at 9:02 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 24, 2015 at 9:19 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 24, 2015 at 9:23 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 24, 2015 at 9:26 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 24, 2015 at 9:36 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 24, 2015 at 9:41 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 24, 2015 at 9:48 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 24, 2015 at 10:00 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 24, 2015 at 10:10 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 24, 2015 at 10:22 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 25, 2015 at 9:36 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Ravenshire - July 24, 2015 at 10:58 pm
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RE: Hostage to fear - by Nope - July 24, 2015 at 5:06 pm
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RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 25, 2015 at 9:46 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Godschild - July 23, 2015 at 12:10 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 23, 2015 at 5:28 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Godschild - July 24, 2015 at 3:25 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 19, 2015 at 11:24 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 19, 2015 at 1:14 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Pyrrho - July 19, 2015 at 1:21 pm
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RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - July 19, 2015 at 10:43 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 20, 2015 at 6:49 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - July 20, 2015 at 7:41 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by The Grand Nudger - July 21, 2015 at 9:06 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 21, 2015 at 9:22 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 21, 2015 at 9:11 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 21, 2015 at 9:26 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 21, 2015 at 10:27 am
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RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 22, 2015 at 1:05 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 23, 2015 at 4:16 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Redbeard The Pink - July 23, 2015 at 11:01 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 24, 2015 at 9:09 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Redbeard The Pink - July 24, 2015 at 1:06 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 24, 2015 at 4:37 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Nope - July 24, 2015 at 5:03 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 24, 2015 at 7:50 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Redbeard The Pink - July 24, 2015 at 11:51 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 25, 2015 at 7:25 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Redbeard The Pink - July 26, 2015 at 1:59 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 26, 2015 at 3:30 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Redbeard The Pink - July 26, 2015 at 10:09 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 25, 2015 at 5:59 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 25, 2015 at 7:30 am
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 25, 2015 at 12:53 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Spacetime - July 25, 2015 at 9:38 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 25, 2015 at 9:52 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 25, 2015 at 10:01 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Iroscato - July 25, 2015 at 10:06 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Randy Carson - July 25, 2015 at 10:13 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by Iroscato - July 25, 2015 at 10:26 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 25, 2015 at 10:16 pm
RE: Hostage to fear - by robvalue - July 28, 2015 at 6:24 am

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