(August 26, 2015 at 9:33 am)Whateverist the White Wrote:"What the hell is a god?"[hide Wrote:Rekeisha pid='906491' dateline='1427230055']As a Christian I think it is very dangerous to pick and choose from the bible because, you are correct Mental Outlaw, the New Testament is dependent upon the Old Testament and God hasn't changed from one testament to the other. I would like to ask all of you a question. Do you not pick and choose as an atheist? You say God is evil but where are you getting your standard for what is evil? I can say something is evil because I have an absolute standard on what I base evil off of which is God and what He says about himself. So where are you getting you standard of evil from?[/hide]Quote:So this is why the thread with the unappealing title has been on the charts for like forever. Wow, have you truly always and only ever posted on just this one thread? Funny how certain posters -lil' Rik comes to mind- prefer to do all their business on just one thread.
But I completely agree with you about picking and choosing. I mean, why the bible? Personally though I don't say God is evil even though the entity that goes by that name in the old testament certainly seems to be played that way. No, for me, the problem with God is the incoherence. What the hell is a god?
A god was simply a man in ancient times who enforced his political and religious rules by killing people who violated them.
The "God" of the Bible was simply the series of men who ruled the dominant empire at any particular time in the Middle East during ancient times who controlled the Israelites/Hebrews/Jews. That's why the "God" character acts like an ISIS nut on LSD and magic mushrooms. Most of them were legitimately insane. They wrapped themselves in the cloak of celestial authority by claiming to be some invisible deity who created the universe but they were really only talking about their own empire.
There has never been a real god in this solar system, galaxy, or universe.
