RE: Why did God do Satan’s bidding?
December 6, 2012 at 3:56 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2012 at 3:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 6, 2012 at 3:51 am)Zen Badger Wrote: The fact that Jobs kids got murdered in the process is entirely beside the point.God gave him new ones, so it's all a wash....I'm sure. Dues ex machina. /sarcasm.
Isn't it.......
The especially hilarious bit about this narrative, imo....is that Job doesn't lose his faith, he just attributes all the nasty shit to god essentially douching him (which -is- what happens in the narrative). Had Job lost his faith it would have been a little more understandable...but just rolling over shows how willing to accept douche-god the character of Job was in the mind of the author. Or, more compellingly, how willing to accept douche-god the author himself seems to have been. Guess douche-god is a pretty common theme going at least as far back as the story of Job.
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