RE: How do you reconcile your god, the mass murderer?
November 27, 2017 at 1:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2017 at 1:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We call it murder today even when we -do- recognize the authority that issued the order. We call them warcrimes. We also reject the notion of people as property. Two subjects that elude almighty god..in his benevolent omniscience.
We hear, today, from Decent People™ that god can do whatever he wants with us, because he owns us. We hear, from Decent People™...today.....that ethnic cleansing is kosher when yahweh commands it. That these people get god wrong is not nearly as astonishing as them having gotten those two items wrong. God, at best, is banal fiction.....the willingness to normalize or justify banal fiction by a vocal acceptance of either of those things...however, is disturbing. You'd think we might have learned something since the mythology became popular...and the point of magic book is..ostensibly, to teach us something.
Is the message really that when god does or says to do something..no matter what it is, we should stand at attention and sig fucking heil? Is there some requirement that a modern believer justify the atrocities imagined by an ethnocentric culture and attributed to god?
We hear, today, from Decent People™ that god can do whatever he wants with us, because he owns us. We hear, from Decent People™...today.....that ethnic cleansing is kosher when yahweh commands it. That these people get god wrong is not nearly as astonishing as them having gotten those two items wrong. God, at best, is banal fiction.....the willingness to normalize or justify banal fiction by a vocal acceptance of either of those things...however, is disturbing. You'd think we might have learned something since the mythology became popular...and the point of magic book is..ostensibly, to teach us something.
Is the message really that when god does or says to do something..no matter what it is, we should stand at attention and sig fucking heil? Is there some requirement that a modern believer justify the atrocities imagined by an ethnocentric culture and attributed to god?
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