Monday, April 6, 2009

Christian God...

... and why he doesn't exist, or is a liar and entirely impure.

This post in no way suggest I do not believe in a God- just not the same one that the Christian bible (and, in fact, most monotheistic religions) suggests we all worship.

God claims to be omniscient and omnipotent...

Yet he also claims that we are His favorite subjects, being modeled after He himself.

It is my belief that one who is omniscient would feel no attachment to any particular form, as they would take no particular form, seeing the altogether uselessness of being any particular form.

Thus, He has lied to us.

The bible also claims that God's plague cast upon Egypt- killing every first-born son- was a necessary evil, in that the Egyptians needed to be taught not to treat the Jews as they have done.

Why, in that case, did God not simply kill pharaohs which disobeyed His will, and only pharaohs (or perhaps other high-ranking officials as well), until one of said pharaohs finally recognized the pattern which seemed to be occurring?

God has also sinned in sending bears to kill 40-someodd children because, if this information is correct, they insulted their balding schoolteacher, who was in God's favor.

In fact, some atheists who took the time to do so counted up the total kill count when comparing God and Satan. It ending up being about:
God: >1400
Satan: <4
(Of course, this does not include God's killing of 185,000 men in their sleep, 42,000 people because one mispronounced "Shibboleth", and... well... everyone besides Noah and his wife during the great flood, and also fails to demonstrate His brutality both with how He kills, who He kills, and His constant threats.)

Then, of course, there's the biggest thing of all; that, for any reason, God would allow someone to suffer eternal torment. I don't think people realize what eternal means. It means no death. No escape. Just pain, pain, and more pain. There is absolutely no being of goodwill who would subject any sentient being to that. Thus, for the allowance of the passage of souls to Hell, I would actually consider God to be outright evil, according to most monotheistic religions.

Please keep in mind; I have not read the bible myself. This information is corrupted partially because of that, and partially due to the fact that I severely dislike the Christian God as Christians themselves portray Him, which all started when I realized that asking for us to worship Him would be something He would not at all do were He truly omniscient, and that the only true reason for Him to ask us this would be to inflate His own ego. Of course, the best way to get someone to inflate your ego is to inflate their own ego, which made me consider the proposal that we were His favorite creations, and so on, and so forth.

Quite frankly, I believe God never has, and quite possibly never will, communicate with us... if he exists. However, it is possible, if you consider it, that God actively takes a hand in shaping fate- as you yourself would have to be omniscient in order to categorize all the causes and effects which would lead to a single event happening, let alone every in the world.

And please, you may comment on this post, but please keep it civil. I did warn you there would be blasphemy.

2 comments:

  1. Dear Aburaishi,

    You mention an interesting dilemma of the eternal suffering. While not myself a Christian, I can't help but ask- isn't the idea behind this notion not the suffering per se, but the perception of its eternity by the sufferer? (In other words, isn't the entire point of the punishment that the punished does not know when he or she will be allowed back into G-d's grace?) I find it very hard to digest the idea that punishment - any punishment - is eternal, because, then, what's the point?

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  2. Well... see... but that's why I say Christianity (or at least the Bible) is wrong. Because you can't possibly say that Hell is, in truth, just a metaphor or not knowing when God will like you again.
    Although, I also believe that it doesn't make much sense for us to ever fall out of God's grace, being, supposedly, creations of He Himself... if we're imperfect, it is simply His fault, and you would think He would be unable to blame us for that.

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