(March 28, 2015 at 8:35 am)professor Wrote: You guys, with your absurd monster character of God, which you rebel against, are actually in better shape than the Muslims who also have an absurd monster character of God, but who, in their stupid self righteousness create a twisted character of themselves.
Prof, could you explain what about the character of the god of the bible isn't cruel?
He floods, kills, condones and encourages genocide and rape. How is it not cruel?
He chose to reveal himself to one tribe in the Middle East, completely ignoring the rest of the world and sentencing them to hell.
If you're trying to go with the "god is justice, therefore whatever he does is just" excuse, firstly it is a disgusting way of rationalising atrocities and secondly it doesn't hold any water when you combine it with the claim that morality comes from god.
Does it not say "thou shalt not kill"? Why then doesn't god follow his own standards? Where did that rule come from if god has no respect for it?
The bit when god tells Abraham to kill his son always confused me. When you ask theists what would they do if god told them to kill their family they say god wouldn't say that -- but he did in the bible. And Abraham was rewarded for almost killing his only child.
And as for the non Jews before Jesus, I believe they died, as has 99% of everything that's ever lived and have been dead since.
