Similarities Between the Christian God and Abusive Spouses

[Jesster]

Haha, very true! Even so, there's still the same use of control in the doctrines and the church of the religion.

Then I think it's fair to say that the church(es), or church leaders are like abusive spouses. They are real entities. You can't say the christian god is like an abusive spouse. It's like saying that the God Apollo is a like a serial killer, or the Joker from Batman is like a mental patient.  Why compare something imaginary with something real? It also distracts from the real people who are actually like abusive spouses to lay it on a fictional person. There are real clergy doing real abuses. That's not the fault of some imaginary character. It's the fault of actual people who actually exist.

Oh sure. You can still say that the "character" God is like an abusive spouse. We label Darth Vader with negative traits as well, and he's just as fictional. The difference is that people are acting on behalf of the character whether he is real or not. Of course I am certainly blaming the people who created and still believe in this idea. I think this is getting a bit too far into semantics though.