RE: Yahweh is all powerful, yet, my god is better than your GOD
September 19, 2011 at 2:14 am
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2011 at 2:17 am by coffeeveritas.)
(September 18, 2011 at 8:21 am)Castle Wrote: 1. I can avoid the negative feeling and action of regret, jealous, anger and your God can’t.
2. Always manage money well, where your God’s always needs tax free money.
3. Never harmed or killed anyone where your God has killed more people in his name more than for any other reason in World's history, more people have been jailed and more wars have been battled.
4. I’m fearless and no one fears me yet your God warns everyone to fear him many times over.
1. Psychologically speaking it's not healthy to pass judgment on what you or anyone else feels. Feelings are indicators or emotional realities, they aren't good or bad.
2. The money you're referring to is the tithe, I assume, but it's not as if God needed it for anything. The purpose of the tithe was for people to take a manageable portion of their income in order to support those who would otherwise be unable to survive. Even an atheist should appreciate the value of sharing a little bit of their wealth to help people that live on less than 1 dollar a day.
3. Difference between pretense and cause. The "Wars of Religion" were basically between countries who were just picking whoever was most advantageous to attack. Protestants attacked protestants, catholics and protestants attacked other catholics. It's not like there were really teams. Crusades were imbued with religious overtones but sparked by the same basic Greek-Persian land struggle that had been going on for thousands of years. Then of course their are people who really just get worked up into a frenzy about killing people for some stupid religious reason. This is really unfortunate, but people are completely irrational when it comes to the in-group vs. out-group dynamic. It does really matter what the different sides are Muslim vs. Christian, Socialist vs. Capitalist, coke vs. pepsi, people can legitimately hate and dehumanize the people on the other side. This really reflects the human condition and not the teachings of Jesus.
4. The word "Fear" in Hebrew is incredibly nuanced and the meaning is not what people would think it is. It doesn't mean, "be afraid of" at all, but conveys the ancient concept of a sense of of awe and uncertainty in the face of something much greater than one's self.
