Similarities Between the Christian God and Abusive Spouses

[Jesster]

[CapnAwesome]

Here is a big difference: abusive spouses are real.

[Jesster]

Here is a big difference: abusive spouses are real.

Haha, very true! Even so, there's still the same use of control in the doctrines and the church of the religion.

[dyresand]

Even if the possibility of a god(s) existing or not people use fear and violence to spread a message.
Then you have god the bible which doesn't exist people use the fear tactic of hell to scare the belief of god into people
ironically hell canon wise to the bible shouldn't exist as it was added. But it clearly shows if said being existed is clearly
a spiritual kim jong il and heaven is a trap for believers who seriously think that being is good. So is god like a abusive spouse..
well as a character in a book that millions of people believe in sure why the hell not i mean we humans have been killing one another
over stupid shit like the sun god.

[CapnAwesome]

Here is a big difference: abusive spouses are real.

Haha, very true! Even so, there's still the same use of control in the doctrines and the church of the religion.

Then I think it's fair to say that the church(es), or church leaders are like abusive spouses. They are real entities. You can't say the christian god is like an abusive spouse. It's like saying that the God Apollo is a like a serial killer, or the Joker from Batman is like a mental patient.  Why compare something imaginary with something real? It also distracts from the real people who are actually like abusive spouses to lay it on a fictional person. There are real clergy doing real abuses. That's not the fault of some imaginary character. It's the fault of actual people who actually exist.

[Jesster]

Haha, very true! Even so, there's still the same use of control in the doctrines and the church of the religion.

Then I think it's fair to say that the church(es), or church leaders are like abusive spouses. They are real entities. You can't say the christian god is like an abusive spouse. It's like saying that the God Apollo is a like a serial killer, or the Joker from Batman is like a mental patient.  Why compare something imaginary with something real? It also distracts from the real people who are actually like abusive spouses to lay it on a fictional person. There are real clergy doing real abuses. That's not the fault of some imaginary character. It's the fault of actual people who actually exist.

Oh sure. You can still say that the "character" God is like an abusive spouse. We label Darth Vader with negative traits as well, and he's just as fictional. The difference is that people are acting on behalf of the character whether he is real or not. Of course I am certainly blaming the people who created and still believe in this idea. I think this is getting a bit too far into semantics though.

[RobertE]

[Jesster]

Yes, I know it's a fictional fantasy character. I think the point of this thread may have been missed. This was meant to compare the character portrayed within Christianity (or other similar beliefs if you wish) to a negative trait within humanity.

[RobertE]

Yes, I know it's a fictional fantasy character. I think the point of this thread may have been missed. This was meant to compare the character portrayed within Christianity (or other similar beliefs if you wish) to a negative trait within humanity.

Well, in short, the negative trait within humanity has always existed ever since Simiiformes existed, perhaps even before then.

[RobertE]