(May 17, 2016 at 8:14 am)robvalue Wrote: Right, picture the scene...
You're all powerful. You have no peers. No one can touch you.
Why would you need to order people not to worship "other gods"? Maybe God does not know he has no peers. Whoops, that's a problem for his omniscience.
If I saw people worshipping some piece of shit golden monkey or something, how much would I care about that? Well, I wouldn't care. I wouldn't care whether they worshipped me either. Why would I? I can do what I want. I can just remove the golden monkey from history, if I suddenly see it as a problem. I'd be more concerned with stopping people ass-raping kids, if I was concerned at all. And I'd wonder why I allowed that in the first place.
Yeah, this is where it gets outright weird with Christians.
God creates people, knowing they'll be tainted with Original Sin and destined for hell. His method of salvation for him is to demand their belief in something that seems quite literally unbelievable. Yeah, he 'sacrificed' a part of himself/his son, but it really wasn't much of a sacrifice on the cosmic scale (dude came back, he's fine). But, basically, we're on our own.
And god apparently wants us to believe in him so we can pester him for all eternity up in heaven. But billions of us will die because he doesn't really stack the deck in favor of us having enough to go on in order to actually believe in him.
I don't get why god would actually want to spend eternity with a bunch of inferior creatures. Especially when none of the trials we face on earth can actually prepare us for paradise. It's not like good character is useful in a world with no wants or pain. Even our appreciation for such a realm would necessarily diminish as we got used to it.
None of it makes sense. It's just robotic platitudes and sayings regurgitated without thought behind them. "He wants a relationship with you! He wants you by his side!" Why? What does he get out of it?
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
