(June 21, 2011 at 3:35 am)TheYoungAtheist Wrote: Exactly! It's really just as simple as proposing the question "Why?" Such as: When "god" was making us, WHY would he even implant the ability to be violent? WHY even create such a thing as war, poverty, murder, rape, etc. ?? WHY sacrifice your son to cleanse a retched people, when you could've just created a perfect people in the first place?
And thank you Aerzia! I wasn't even paying attention haha, you're right: paragraphs are quite beautiful
There's a simple answer as to why God made us with the capability to become quite violent, and why He created war, rape, pestilence, murder, etc is that God created us in His image. Or, in truth, humans created God in our image.
God has all of the features of a human being... including His capacity for violence, and approving of taking captive girl children for later raping when they grew up, bashing babies' heads against stone walls, wholesale slaughter of civilians in cities, child abuse, a desire to cut the genitals of infants, a perverse love of foreskins, enjoying the smell of burning flesh, animal abuse, misogyny, and xenophobia. Although said to be omnipotent, He seems to be unable to change his mind nor to forgive without a blood sacrifice of something.
That's why he had to send his son, who was really himself, conceived by a ghost of himself by a virgin, be executed as an enemy of the State (Rome), leaving no record by the Romans who were about as efficient as the IRS at record keeping, be buried in a tomb which was not his own, yet not really die and leave that tomb (did he rent it by the hour?), where he had the ability to walk through walls, not be recognized by people who knew him well at first, not be seen by various guards and others, fly into heaven as seen by multitudes, who evidently forgot all of this, or that they'd followed him, for about 40 years (nearly 2 generations at the time), then they wrote about him at length, and taught all of this "good news" as if it were really important, although nothing is said about him between 33 A.D. until 70 A.D. (Writing of the Gospel of Mark).
There were a ton of "God men" throughout the middle east around that time - from Dionysus to Mithras to Apaplonius of Tyana to Attis to Osiris, the great-granddaddy of them all. Several of these were born of virgins on December 25th, healed the sick, raised the dead, were tragically killed, and resurrected
This is discussed at length in the movie, "The God Who Wasn't There" at http://www.thegodmovie.com
