(April 25, 2010 at 4:50 am)Zen Badger Wrote: The strange thing is that this god of theirs seems to embody all the things we find ignoble in humans.
Jealousy, murder, intolerance, hatred, genocide, incompetence, etc,etc....
Yet they hold him up as some sort of perfect being.
Any human displaying the qualities he possesses would be jailed for their behaviour.
Take the Great Flood, because of the immoral behaviour of a small group of humans(a very small % of the planets population)
He decides to wipe out almost all life on Earth.
A much more efficent and intelligent approach would have been to inflict a species specific virus on humanity(terminal haemerroids springs to mind for
some reason) thereby sparing the rest of the biosphere.
But no, we'll have a huge tantrum and destroy EVERTHING.
Very merciful.
well God isnt perfect in the Old Testament. God is considered like the Greek Gods: with human qualities. The people who wrote the New Testament realized that an universally loving God is much more appealing than a God who has a chosen people and fucks up all the rest.
