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NEW HERE HAVING CRISIS
#41
RE: NEW HERE HAVING CRISIS
(November 4, 2021 at 4:52 pm)nottheone Wrote: yea but an all moral god who rewards rapists
is an oxymoron

I like it when he kills innocent pigs,........... and children.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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#42
RE: NEW HERE HAVING CRISIS
(November 3, 2021 at 10:53 pm)nottheone Wrote: So just to make things short. Grew up catholic. converted atheist in middle school. went back to christianity at 18. now an atheist at 22. I made some promises to god while I was a believer and im afraid even though I do not believe a god exists im afraid he is going to do something about these promises and guide me in this direction regardless and its giving me a ton of anxiety. could anyone help further re instate the lack of existence of the Old Testament deity.

Neither the OT or NT God are real. I also was raised Catholic. But it doesn't matter the sect. There is no reason to fear the wrath of mythology or the threat of a non existent hell. You can still be a good human and be non violent and have empathy for others without superstition.
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#43
RE: NEW HERE HAVING CRISIS
(November 3, 2021 at 10:53 pm)nottheone Wrote: I made some promises to god while I was a believer and im afraid even though I do not believe a god exists im afraid he is going to do something about these promises and guide me in this direction regardless and its giving me a ton of anxiety. could anyone help further re instate the lack of existence of the Old Testament deity.

The fear of "if I'm wrong and there is a god, I'm going to hell" is insidious.  However, consider this:

1) If there were a god, how do you know it accepted your promises, or even cares?  What can you promise an omni-everything god anyway?
2) If there were a god, it would know exactly why you don't believe.  If it punishes you for that, its a dick.

The bible god is bad fiction.  The OT version is a tribal war god, and the NT version is an extortionist -- "believe in me or else!".
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#44
RE: NEW HERE HAVING CRISIS
When you think about it Lord Yahweh isn't the only god in our fiction. There were all the Greek gods, Norse gods, Egyptian gods or whatnot. So if one god can exist why not another? So even if you think Yahweh is real, it could be Zeus or Odin and you're fucked anyway for not praying to them instead of Yahweh.

Frankly if you can come to the conclusion of just one god being real, then you can come to the conclusion that none of them are.
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#45
RE: NEW HERE HAVING CRISIS
Do you know the god of the old testament murdered humans? Do you know what love is? Would you consider god murdering humans an act of love?
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#46
RE: NEW HERE HAVING CRISIS
(November 27, 2021 at 10:05 pm)ergo Wrote: Do you know the god of the old testament murdered humans? Do you know what love is? Would you consider god murdering humans an act of love?

Did the old testament god actually murder?
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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#47
RE: NEW HERE HAVING CRISIS
(November 27, 2021 at 11:07 pm)brewer Wrote:
(November 27, 2021 at 10:05 pm)ergo Wrote: Do you know the god of the old testament murdered humans? Do you know what love is? Would you consider god murdering humans an act of love?

Did the old testament god actually murder?

I think that can be taken as a 'yes'.

According to the Book Of Genesis, YHWH wiped out the entire human race except for Noah and his family.   That's genocide in my book, so 'murder' is an understatement.

YHWH of The Torah was a monster. Jealous, petty, vindictive and genocidal. This was a small tribal god, and limited in so many ways.

YHWH became king of the universe and the one creator God only after the putative Exodus. The people who became the Jews became monotheists  at that time, at least officially.

As Judaism evolved, so did its god. Eventually YHWH  became the only, creator god, Lord of the universe. He was ascribed infinite attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresent.

It's my opinion, that to such a being we would be less than ants. We would be incapable of  pleasing or offending such a being.
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#48
RE: NEW HERE HAVING CRISIS
(November 27, 2021 at 11:07 pm)brewer Wrote:
(November 27, 2021 at 10:05 pm)ergo Wrote: Do you know the god of the old testament murdered humans? Do you know what love is? Would you consider god murdering humans an act of love?

Did the old testament god actually murder?

In the name way that the Empire actually destroyed Alderan.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

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#49
RE: NEW HERE HAVING CRISIS
(November 3, 2021 at 10:53 pm)nottheone Wrote: So just to make things short. Grew up catholic. converted atheist in middle school. went back to christianity at 18. now an atheist at 22. I made some promises to god while I was a believer and im afraid even though I do not believe a god exists im afraid he is going to do something about these promises and guide me in this direction regardless and its giving me a ton of anxiety. could anyone help further re instate the lack of existence of the Old Testament deity.

Nobody "converts". Humans are not Transformers. We simply change our minds about the positions we hold.
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#50
RE: NEW HERE HAVING CRISIS
(November 28, 2021 at 12:35 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(November 3, 2021 at 10:53 pm)nottheone Wrote: So just to make things short. Grew up catholic. converted atheist in middle school. went back to christianity at 18. now an atheist at 22. I made some promises to god while I was a believer and im afraid even though I do not believe a god exists im afraid he is going to do something about these promises and guide me in this direction regardless and its giving me a ton of anxiety. could anyone help further re instate the lack of existence of the Old Testament deity.

Nobody "converts". Humans are not Transformers. We simply change our minds about the positions we hold.

In a religious sense, that’s exactly what ‘convert’ means.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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