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Impossible to love a monster
April 5, 2018 at 2:18 am
Most people find it difficult to love a monster.
Certainly, I've experienced my share of dislike. I am a monster, after all. At least I admit it, and at least others can recognize it in me (you damned atheists, I could be a god).
The biblical god is a monster, of tremendous proportion. The fact that Christians would rather resort to the unreasonable "father figure" label is testament to their ignorance. They then claim that god is above human understanding, yet they seem to understand god perfectly so long as they are telling non-believers that they must follow THIS god. Contradictions and fallible religious interpretation abound. Leaps and bounds.
God is nothing more than man's willingness to fool himself into thinking there is a higher being that wants the world just as his human mind perceives it should be. The god concept. The willingness of man's mind to delude himself into believing that a god exists.
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RE: Impossible to love a monster
April 5, 2018 at 2:27 am
(April 5, 2018 at 2:18 am)Lutrinae Wrote: The biblical god is a monster, of tremendous proportion. The fact that Christians would rather resort to the unreasonable "father figure" label is testament to their ignorance. They then claim that god is above human understanding, yet they seem to understand god perfectly so long as they are telling non-believers that they must follow THIS god. Contradictions and fallible religious interpretation abound. Leaps and bounds.
God is nothing more than man's willingness to fool himself into thinking there is a higher being that wants the world just as his human mind perceives it should be. The god concept. The willingness of man's mind to delude himself into believing that a god exists.
Dawkins got there first dude:
Richard Dawkins Wrote:The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
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RE: Impossible to love a monster
April 5, 2018 at 11:12 am
Isaiah 36 (KJV)
12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
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RE: Impossible to love a monster
April 5, 2018 at 12:37 pm
The Olympian Gods were vain, capricious shits, too. Even in that, yhwh is nothing special. Just one more shit god that mankind has dreamed up to scare itself.
The "gods" were the Slasher Movies of their day.
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RE: Impossible to love a monster
April 5, 2018 at 1:26 pm
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Farm animals get abused by "gods" for extra profit. They cannot fight back and can only suffer in cage whole life and get lucky by getting quick death via shot to the head at best. That's a very good example of religious worldview, utter nightmare.
If we are in the same position as those farm animals compared to possible God, what then...?
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RE: Impossible to love a monster
April 5, 2018 at 2:50 pm
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Most people -think- they'd find it difficult to love a monster. They're wrong. We do it with ease. The thing that's damned near impossible is -not- loving some monster you've come to love.
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RE: Impossible to love a monster
April 5, 2018 at 2:56 pm
Awwwwww.
My big fluffy and white cat in named Monster.
Are you saying he's impossible to love?
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RE: Impossible to love a monster
April 5, 2018 at 2:56 pm
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses will be looted and their wives violated.
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RE: Impossible to love a monster
April 5, 2018 at 2:59 pm
(April 5, 2018 at 2:56 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses will be looted and their wives violated.
Obviously god was at the movies and someone had a screaming kid in the cinema.
In that context his reaction is understandable.
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RE: Impossible to love a monster
April 5, 2018 at 3:03 pm
I was thinking trans-oceanic flight.
But yeah . . . the cinema might also provoke such a divine response.
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