Does God hate us? (bible, quote, Biblical, believers)
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The bible certainly makes this god out to be a monster, and I believe in god, but my god would whup his a hole for drowning babies, and telling his kids to pillage, steal, KILL.
Yes, got hates you all... but that's because nobody's been sending me checks to buy the necessary palace full of fine, shiny things that god requires to be placated. You can pay me with money or you can pay for your sins through physical suffering and torment. Your choice.
I believe that just as there are animals below us in intelligence and capabilities, it makes sense that there are creatures that far above us as well.
The God in the bible demonstrates many of the qualities that, if our neighbor demonstrated them, we would shy away from him. He is jealous, pompous, spoiled, fit throwing, a racist, homophobic, petty. He causes floods and destruction and plagues.
So, if this is our 'God' he certainly is not in our camp. If you look at this guy in the bible you can get the feeling that he may be a scientist, experimenting, creating a race and telling them not to marry outsiders. Separating peoples by language differences. Yet when he's not pleased with the job that He has done, he wipes out whole groups of us.
So, yeah, this guy may have a 'plan' but we all don't figure so well in it, do we? We seem to be toys that he plays with. What does he care of our 'feelings' or health or well being? He seems pretty much only concerned with the results of the experiment.
There may be a god, but not the guy in the bible. No way.
Why say it eloquently? Bad things happen because some people are dicks who impose their rules made to benfit themselves or other dicks. Second, the dicks in power are indifferent to the problems they create or problems that existed without them.Thrid, somtimes dicks benfit from the misfortune of others.Fourth, there are not enough people who aren't dicks to stop or oppose every dick. Fifth, no matter how many people aren't dicks they can't stop every misfortune in the world.God was created as the greatest, unquestionable dick, by earthly dicks who saw that other people might question them and their rules. I take it back. I said it in the most eloquent way possible.
Ah, even the Biblical writers had problems with God at times. Just ask good ol' Job, who despite being an exceptional individual in God's eyes, had some choice cuts to make against him:
Though you know that I am not guilty,
There is no escape from your hand.
Your hands molded and made me,
And then turned to destroy me.
(Job 10:7-8, AB)
'Guiltless as well as wicked he destroys'.
When the scourge slays suddenly,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.
Earth is given to the control of the wicked,
The faces of her judges he covers.
If not he, then who?
(Job 9:22a-24)
We are not the first ones to have a problem with God and the issue of Theodicy. Even some of the Biblical writers had issues with it. The best expression of this is the Book of Job, and it should be required reading for believers and non-believers alike. The content may surprise you.
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