RE: 10 Questions Biblical Literalists Cannot Honestly Answer
June 16, 2017 at 10:48 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2017 at 10:49 am by Cyberman.)
To borrow a leaf out of the excellent God On Trial, when yhwh commanded Abraham to kill his son, why didn't Abe refuse? Why didn't he teach it the mercy that's in our hearts? He didn't even question the command, which I get it was the whole point of the story. So it must have been within what Abraham knew was the character of his god; that it was something it would do. He didn't think to wonder if what he was told to do was right or wrong - something we've known since the Eden Incident apparently.
The real smoking gun? "God" knew all this before it even got out of bed that morning. It knew the number of hairs on the guy's head, ffs. It definitely knew there was more than Elisha had, for one thing (see Operation Goldilocks).
What a more inspiring story it could have been, to have had Abraham standing up to yhwh and explaining exactly why such blind obedience is wrong and how might never makes right - and have yhwh commending him for his morality in questioning a questionable authority, resisting evil and the importance of questioning one's sources. Then smiting him with cancer of the cock anyway, because Old Testament God is still a massive shit.
The real smoking gun? "God" knew all this before it even got out of bed that morning. It knew the number of hairs on the guy's head, ffs. It definitely knew there was more than Elisha had, for one thing (see Operation Goldilocks).
What a more inspiring story it could have been, to have had Abraham standing up to yhwh and explaining exactly why such blind obedience is wrong and how might never makes right - and have yhwh commending him for his morality in questioning a questionable authority, resisting evil and the importance of questioning one's sources. Then smiting him with cancer of the cock anyway, because Old Testament God is still a massive shit.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
