SteelHead wrote:It could also be shown to be the same kind of child sacrafice required by Molech/Baal. God is bloodthirsty and can only be appeased ny the blood of innocents.
Exactly. It's not child sacrifice that was wrong...it was that they were sacrificing to the wrong deity.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Yes IT is... It's just as hard explaining what that is...
PrickKicker: I used to be a Narrow minded, short sighted, Lying, Racist, Homophobic, Pious, Moron. But they were all behavioral traits that I had learnt through Mormonism.
I nominate consig for sainthood. He rocks! Just sayin.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
bcspace wrote:This is why many Christians, especially liberal ones, don't know God at all. He does get angry. He hates things. He destroys and pronounces doom on people. Etc. All that in combination with, as you say, the positive attributes.
While the temptation is great to make God just like us, initiating the creation and maintaining the Universe would give God a truly cosmopolitan outlook. Once again, if we are to speculate on Gods traits then why not speculate for the best?
bcspace wrote:Sure. This is why many Christians, especially liberal ones, don't know God at all. He does get angry. He hates things. He destroys and pronounces doom on people. Etc. All that in combination with, as you say, the positive attributes.
Why does this remind me of an abused spouse who says, "He hits me, but it's because he loves me? It's my fault anyway."
Your God is evil. I'm glad he doesn't exist.
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