Vengeance is mine ... saith the Lord

[_sock puppet]

A bit stingy and selfish too. Doesn't want to share vengeance with mankind, keeping it all for himself.

So the Christian god really is not someone to be emulated. The Christian god can be angry--even gets angry at humans who themselves get angry, and tells us humans to turn the other cheek.

The Christian god sounds like a real peach.

[_RockSlider]

Come on sock, he's a giver as well.

Concubines, slaves, captured children. If you get on his good side there are benefits (money, sex, power).

[_sock puppet]

Come on sock, he's a giver as well.

Concubines, slaves, captured children. If you get on his good side there are benefits (money, sex, power).

Oh, and Christian god loves suck up from sycophants.

[_Philo Sofee]

Come on sock, he's a giver as well.

Concubines, slaves, captured children. If you get on his good side there are benefits (money, sex, power).

And all this time I thought that was Satans line.......

[_Craig Paxton]

A bit stingy and selfish too. Doesn't want to share vengeance with mankind, keeping it all for himself.

So the Christian god really is not someone to be emulated. The Christian god can be angry--even gets angry at humans who themselves get angry, and tells us humans to turn the other cheek.

The Christian god sounds like a real peach.

Anyone who cares about the temperature of your caffeine intake is a bit anal in my opinion or allows his son to drink wine but then slaps a ban on drinking wine for those who worship the son...its all such a convoluted mish mash of confusion and hypocrisy. As for vengeance, I often wonder what I would do were I God and frankly the Mormon God makes no sense to me. I don't understand the insatiable need to be worshiped & praised. Isn't that a character flaw? Were it a mere man we were talking about, he would be utterly dismissed...but because it is God we are talking about somehow this kind of behavior is tolerated, justified and somehow ok.

[_Dr Exiled]

A bit stingy and selfish too. Doesn't want to share vengeance with mankind, keeping it all for himself.

So the Christian god really is not someone to be emulated. The Christian god can be angry--even gets angry at humans who themselves get angry, and tells us humans to turn the other cheek.

The Christian god sounds like a real peach.

Anyone who cares about the temperature of your caffeine intake is a bit anal in my opinion or allows his son to drink wine but then slaps a ban on drinking wine for those who worship the son...its all such a convoluted mish mash of confusion and hypocrisy. As for vengeance, I often wonder what I would do were I God and frankly the Mormon God makes no sense to me. I don't understand the insatiable need to be worshiped & praised. Isn't that a character flaw? Were it a mere man we were talking about, he would be utterly dismissed...but because it is God we are talking about somehow this kind of behavior is tolerated, justified and somehow ok.

I think the constant need to be worshiped is a very strong tell that man is inventing god in his own image. This type of worship is very convenient to those in power.

[_candygal]

If vengeance belongs to God..why are there so many excommunications??

[_moksha]

I had such a queasy feeling when I first read that Brigham Young had used that "vengeance is mine" line while having the Mountain Meadows burial cairn dismantled and scattered. All that Old Testament ideation made for some bad Mormon hombres. Glad we are more New Testament now.

[_Jesse Pinkman]

A bit stingy and selfish too. Doesn't want to share vengeance with mankind, keeping it all for himself.

So the Christian god really is not someone to be emulated. The Christian god can be angry--even gets angry at humans who themselves get angry, and tells us humans to turn the other cheek.

The Christian god sounds like a real peach.

Anyone who cares about the temperature of your caffeine intake is a bit anal in my opinion or allows his son to drink wine but then slaps a ban on drinking wine for those who worship the son...its all such a convoluted mish mash of confusion and hypocrisy. As for vengeance, I often wonder what I would do were I God and frankly the Mormon God makes no sense to me. I don't understand the insatiable need to be worshiped & praised. Isn't that a character flaw? Were it a mere man we were talking about, he would be utterly dismissed...but because it is God we are talking about somehow this kind of behavior is tolerated, justified and somehow ok.

All of these are fantastic points.