RE: Christians are morally compromised
September 26, 2011 at 1:44 pm
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2011 at 1:50 pm by Welsh cake.)
Christians are morally compromised, or confounded rather, in the sense that they believe "God is good", even when he's being evil.
Its the same as the equally fundamentally-flawed statement "The customer is always right." when we know all too well from past relationships the customer can sometimes be right, can sometimes be wrong, and other times just plain crazy. It was a business model/philosophy that was doomed to failure before it started, ignoring that some people's irrationality, selfishness and irresponsibleness makes them wholly unprofitable.
Its no different with the Christian God. Just because he is God doesn't always make him morally right. Might never makes right. An infinitely benign all-powerful deity should never put his own interests first. Yet God freely confesses he only works toward his own selfish schemes of 'glorification', sparing a 'transgressive mankind' merely for his 'namesake' only rather than showing genuine empathy or compassion to the pitiable finite race. Indeed instead of a loving deity in the Bible the far opposite is true as he murders as he pleases, striking down anyone who stands against his purpose. He has demonstrated to be totally unworthy of reverence or adoration and yet bizarrely Christians still manage to love this 'inhuman creature' anyway.
How many theists in that audience would you say had nothing but hatred and contempt for Dan Barker for exposing this all-too-apparent 'monster god', rather than leaving feeling deep shame and embarrassment for ever holding this deplorably wicked concept in such high regard? Sadly, I would hazard a guess there was at least more than one.
Its the same as the equally fundamentally-flawed statement "The customer is always right." when we know all too well from past relationships the customer can sometimes be right, can sometimes be wrong, and other times just plain crazy. It was a business model/philosophy that was doomed to failure before it started, ignoring that some people's irrationality, selfishness and irresponsibleness makes them wholly unprofitable.
Its no different with the Christian God. Just because he is God doesn't always make him morally right. Might never makes right. An infinitely benign all-powerful deity should never put his own interests first. Yet God freely confesses he only works toward his own selfish schemes of 'glorification', sparing a 'transgressive mankind' merely for his 'namesake' only rather than showing genuine empathy or compassion to the pitiable finite race. Indeed instead of a loving deity in the Bible the far opposite is true as he murders as he pleases, striking down anyone who stands against his purpose. He has demonstrated to be totally unworthy of reverence or adoration and yet bizarrely Christians still manage to love this 'inhuman creature' anyway.
How many theists in that audience would you say had nothing but hatred and contempt for Dan Barker for exposing this all-too-apparent 'monster god', rather than leaving feeling deep shame and embarrassment for ever holding this deplorably wicked concept in such high regard? Sadly, I would hazard a guess there was at least more than one.
