THIS is what we're striving to be???
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:39 pm
Lets take a look at the God of the Bible that many, including Mormons worship, and what they believe is the pinnacle of perfection...
- He is an egotistical megalomaniac who demands worship from His followers day and night. If a society lapses into a period where they do not worship God, He may or may not "cleanse" them off the face of the Earth.
- He rules by fear. Most people don't worship Him because He is a benevolent, kind and merciful God. No, they do it because they don't want to go to hell. Few dictators have been able to instill this sense of fear into their subjects.
- He has no qualms that 1/3 of His children (plus those on Earth that go there) will be in the Eternal Torment of hell.
- He has no problem killing babies, burning cities, turning people into pillars of salt, flooding the entire world population (minus a lucky few on the ark), etc.
- He selects prophets that have less than stellar reputations, and then commands them to further sully their reputations by lying about immoral acts to fulfill His strange commandments, which make no sense in the first place.
- He makes promises that He doesn't keep...the biggest being that if God makes a promise, He HAS to keep it.
- Of all the options available to an all powerful God to subdue a drunken man, He chooses to have His servant lop off his head.
Any others that you all would like to add?
Now, I'm to understand that THIS is what we are trying to emulate? When we reach the CK, THIS is the kind of person that we will turn into? No thanks, I want no part of that.
Perhaps some of you apologists could give me a list of good things that God does, cause I'm not seeing it.
- He is an egotistical megalomaniac who demands worship from His followers day and night. If a society lapses into a period where they do not worship God, He may or may not "cleanse" them off the face of the Earth.
- He rules by fear. Most people don't worship Him because He is a benevolent, kind and merciful God. No, they do it because they don't want to go to hell. Few dictators have been able to instill this sense of fear into their subjects.
- He has no qualms that 1/3 of His children (plus those on Earth that go there) will be in the Eternal Torment of hell.
- He has no problem killing babies, burning cities, turning people into pillars of salt, flooding the entire world population (minus a lucky few on the ark), etc.
- He selects prophets that have less than stellar reputations, and then commands them to further sully their reputations by lying about immoral acts to fulfill His strange commandments, which make no sense in the first place.
- He makes promises that He doesn't keep...the biggest being that if God makes a promise, He HAS to keep it.
- Of all the options available to an all powerful God to subdue a drunken man, He chooses to have His servant lop off his head.
Any others that you all would like to add?
Now, I'm to understand that THIS is what we are trying to emulate? When we reach the CK, THIS is the kind of person that we will turn into? No thanks, I want no part of that.
Perhaps some of you apologists could give me a list of good things that God does, cause I'm not seeing it.
