(December 31, 2016 at 11:44 am)chimp3 Wrote: Whether Jesus condones violence is a moot point considering all the violence that has been done in his name and he doing shit to stop it.
Wait for it, one of our resident theists will make some excuse as to why.
But yea. The God of Abraham is a very horrible concept from this aspect alone. No sane parent would allow to happen to their kids what this god allows to happen to humans if they had the power to stop it. We as humans have an excuse because we are not perfect or all powerful. It would seem to me if one is to make those claims, of "all loving" and "all powerful" seems to be a shitty way to treat someone you say you love. Neglect, spotty cherry picking whom you protect.
If a couple had several children for example, put them in a room WHILE observing, let one eat broken glass, another to stab the other with a knife, and another to die when they had a temp of 104 for hours or days, beat yet another because it talked back to them, but yet protected the only one they saw as blindly obedient, we would find such parents abusive and or insane.
This God is either inept, malicious or simply does not exist. I refuse to see myself as a mere toy or prop or property for it's own selfish glorification and amusement.
