I do feel obligated to add a couple more:
The same being that your ancient mythwriters called "God", whose "Eternal Objective Moral Code" we are supposed to follow Or Else™, has also said that permanent, heritable slavery, conquest and genocide, and the subjugation (and devaluation) of women are God Approved™.
"Go kill everyone in that town and take their land" (also "keep some of the young virgins for yourselves") is clearly not a command of God, but of people seeking to justify their greed in the name of God. The only way not to see that as plain as day is to blind yourself to it.
If you cannot objectively (hehe) look at those claims about God, and see that it is simply the hand of human beings who were seeking to justify their prejudices and fears by projecting them onto the mind of an eternal lawgiver (Um, noooo, we're not the ones making the rules... these are from God!!! ), then I don't know if you can be helped.
The same being that your ancient mythwriters called "God", whose "Eternal Objective Moral Code" we are supposed to follow Or Else™, has also said that permanent, heritable slavery, conquest and genocide, and the subjugation (and devaluation) of women are God Approved™.
"Go kill everyone in that town and take their land" (also "keep some of the young virgins for yourselves") is clearly not a command of God, but of people seeking to justify their greed in the name of God. The only way not to see that as plain as day is to blind yourself to it.
If you cannot objectively (hehe) look at those claims about God, and see that it is simply the hand of human beings who were seeking to justify their prejudices and fears by projecting them onto the mind of an eternal lawgiver (Um, noooo, we're not the ones making the rules... these are from God!!! ), then I don't know if you can be helped.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
