| spurgeonryan said:
First off, God created man, who he knew was going to be evil. God murdered, and committed genocide on an entire planet. He is a terrorist. Caused the 12 some odd plagues of Egypt. Instead of enforcing the death penalty on the first Murderer in history, he just banished him to become the father of non-Isrealites. He asked a father to kill his own son.
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According to what's written in the old testament if taken literally. In fact, if you take the text literally, God appears to be fairly pagan. That's why it's not meant to be taken so. The ones who do are generally certain Conservative fundamentalists and very obscure Jewish sects. In my religion, the old testament is not taken literally, and we've known this since before my religion existed, for over 2000 years in fact we have known the old testament to be largely allegorical. Much of the old testament was written by scribes in Ptolemaic Egypt during the reign of Ptolemy II in the 3rd century BC.
| spurgeonryan said:
Is Satan just a persona that he made up so that we had something worse to Hate and fear than God himself? The greatest trick God ever did, was make the world think that the Devil was real.
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Satan is the adversary of men in the old testament. He believes that humans are not worthy of God.
In the new testament he is the temptor of Jesus in the synoptics, and associated with the Dragon thrown out of heaven in the book of Revelation which is 100% allegory for the fall of the Jews between the first and second Jewish wars.
God, according to Christianity, is associated primarily with creation and love; these are not attributes of Satan is ever associated with. So no, Satan is not God.
| spurgeonryan said:
Am I right? I mean...We are putting our faith, money, and time into someone who is one of the Greatest murderers of all time! A God Who taught us to not be tolerant to other people, to hate same sex marriage, to start wars over nothing.
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You're referring to a section in Leviticus in the Law/Torah. This is the same line of argument taken by the Pharisees of the Gospels in regards to people who break the Sabbath. So I already have a good answer to this in two points used to argue against this:
The laws were created for the benefit of people, people weren't created for the benefit of the laws.
The second of the two primary commandments is "Love thy neighbour"
These two principals are why same sex marriage is alright according to my religion, those who condemn their neighbours for it are not.
As for war, the Gospel preaches peace all throughout it. Either you misunderstand my religion, or the religion you are attempting to criticize is not my religion at all.
| spurgeonryan said:
This is who you follow Religious people. Why do you still do it? |
I am a part of my religion because it is my culture's way of devoting one's self to love, forgiveness, and the pursuit of wisdom. The more I take part in my religion, the more my mind dwells on these things.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
