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R Mercer's avatar

The Christian God obviously suffers from multiple personality disorder, which only makes sense since they are supposedly three-in-one.

I find the idea that there is this powerful being that made everything (and that knows everything, including the future) has a bunch of laws (including dietary and clothing restrictions and detailed architectural designs for a temple) and that ACTUALLY PLAYS FAVORITES and that watches everything you do (and think) and is going to judge you for it and punish you FOR ETERNITY (for maybe 80-90 years of wrongdoing?) both incoherent and actually awful.

Oh, and he turned part of himself into the equivalent of an animal sacrifice, because I guess that is the only way that people can be forgiven by an all-powerful being that sustains and upholds the very universe.

Really?

And these people make fun of Scientologists.

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Mike Lew's avatar

That's the part I "love." An almighty deity had to incarnate himself as a human, so he could sacrifice himself to himself. If he didn't do that, he'd torture every human for literal eternity. Yup, makes sense.

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R Mercer's avatar

Yes, it literally makes no sense unless you are a member of a society that believes that animal sacrifice is an effective way to propitiate powerful supernatural entities... and even then it doesn't actually make any sense, because the sacrifice is that he had to pretend to be one of us for about half a lifetime and then (not actually) die?

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Walternate 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼🇩🇰🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇦's avatar

It's funny and makes me laugh. Then I remember that scores of people have died throughout history in the name of this deity, amongst many others. Sigh.

Texas wants the 10 commandments displayed in schools, presumably because they're important. Yet how many Texans are killing people and/or being killed (not to mention being neglected to death)? Apparently commandments are negotiable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/21/texas-bill-ten-commandments-public-schools-religion/

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knowltok's avatar

1. "Scores of people have died"

Give or take millions upon millions.

2. Obviously all of our problems can be traced back to not having the commandments in schools and courthouses.

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Mary Brownell's avatar

"Millions of people have died throughout history in the name of this deity". Uh-huh, and then there are the millions who died under Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others too numerous too mention throughout history, because of their ideology or they just wanted power--nothing to do with any deity. Maybe people can just be really horrible, and those who try to believe that a loving God wants them to love others too follow more positive principles. "Tikkun olam"--"repairing of the world" in Judaism; "Whatever you do to the least of others you do to me"--Christianity; and I am sure there is something like that to cite in Buddhism, Hinduism, or Islam, but I don't know them.

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JimO's avatar

That reminds me of that Stalin quote "The murder of an individual is a tragedy but murder of a million is a statistic."

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