(August 3, 2015 at 7:08 pm)Godschild Wrote:(August 3, 2015 at 5:17 pm)Salacious B. Crumb Wrote: Are you talking about the same pharaoh who's heart was hardened by your loving god, who wants everyone to be in heaven with him?
I'm talking about the Pharaoh who was given a second chance by God before his heart was hardened forever. You need to read scripture very carefully, but you probably don't read it at all, so I'll consider your comment, parroting.
GC
I think you're missing the point. The "fact" that god actually hardened the pharaoh's heart in order to perform his magic show, to watch everyone suffer with the plagues is absolutely.. INSANE. He didn't just punish the bad, the innocent were hurt as well.
You and I see the scriptures in a very different fashion. I doubt you would punish the good people, along with the bad people, if you were a god. I can't understand how people just look at this as being perfectly ok, when most of them would consider punishing good people along with bad people, immoral, but when this god character does it in a book, written by man, it's perfectly ok. I call that a double standard.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
