Abusive Theology 101

[ITChick]

I can answer that from a Biblical perspective, but in a forum post, that would be circular reasoning, without listing full-blown evidence for the Bible's validity outside of itself.

For this one you can use scripture. In order to convince me you will have to convince me that:
1) God exists
2) The Christian god is the correct one
3) If the Christian god exists he/she is not an evil bastard with some serious anger issues.

If you manage to comvince me of 3 I'll be more open to 1 and 2.

There is a post somewhere on these forums "Is God Evil". Go and tip your toes in .

EDIT: I actually sincerely don't understand why torture would be considered bad without God in the picture, so I ask again. Why is torture bad?

This one has been answered but I would like to add my answer as well.

Humans need each other to survive. Those people who go around proclaiming: "I don't need nothing from nobody" are stupid. And I'm not just saying that because they use double negatives.

Something as small as me driving to work this morning required thousands of people. My car, the fuel in my car, the road, the traffic lights the truck that drove the petrol to the petrol station, etc. None of these things would be there if it were not for loads of other people.

Because of this I can say with a fair amount of confidence that anything that is bad for society is bad for the individual (me). Since society is made up of individuals, anything that is bad for an individual will have a negative impact on society. That includes individuals who do do not contribute to society - they have friends and family who do.

This is one of the places where the Christian argument of "if there is no God, why don't we all just run around doing what we want" falls flat.