RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
November 25, 2014 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2014 at 1:28 pm by Mystic.)
(November 25, 2014 at 1:04 pm)Smaug Wrote: Why do fundamentalists hate God so much, I wonder? What did he supposedly do to them to deserve such hatred? Why would they keep portraying him as an incompetent, vindictive, petty tyrant that can't handle even the easiest divine tasks? The answer is quite trivial. They don't need God for anything other than to justify their own will, their insane conservatism and insecurity. They don't need God to serve as a moral ideal, they need him to be an ultimate Big Brother to threaten unbelievers and infidels with. They need him as an excuse for their every deed. They want God to be their puppet and to add to it force him to provide them with eternal bliss. And consciously or not they're too scared to become atheists, agnostics or even liberal believers and loose their group identity.
It has nothing to do with that. People believe in the faith they grow up with and some people convert to it for other reasons then you state. The bad qualities of god in each of these religions goes either unnoticed or is seen as part of God's wrath qualities which are seen worthy and high themselves or just accepted on faith. But it has nothing to do with the reasons you state.