(March 10, 2020 at 3:03 pm)unityconversation Wrote: You said: "No real human individual is quite so irredeemably nasty as to combine all of the attributes of God: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Although some do try."
Actually those are attributes of the animal.
The best way to "see" God, is to see the human being.
We are manifesting God all the time.
So you're not even trying to sound serious.
The only animal that is homophobic and racist is human and character of God from holy books.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
