(June 13, 2013 at 5:44 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: And what an unexemplary example of fatherhood he displayed by killing his own son.
Nice point. Here we have our local Calvanist spewing his divine election crap--something I'm unfortunately very familiar with--and he cannot even see how ridiculous and illogical it is for God to sacrifice his "only son" for meaningless objects of his wrath.
Sadly, I have to concede that this point of view is the most consistent with scripture.
As a former Christian, Calvanism (or Reformed Theology) was my final stage of progression before graduating to non-theistic views.
I wish more Christians would truly study what scriptures say and make a similar progression. Once you truly see the sadistic and malevolent character that the bible paints god as having, you can't help but see Yahweh for what he truly is: an invention of evil, racist, self-serving men.