I really don’t understand how anyone can read the Bible and interpret God as anything but malevolent. You have all the “god loved the world” messaging sandwiched in-between a god who punished humanity for wanting knowledge, did the whole genocide thing, tested people like a toxic teenager with their very first bf/gf relationship, murdered his own son as a weird-ass nonsensical gift to the world that noooooobody asked for, murdered a lot of other people’s firstborn sons…murdered a lot of people period…
Jesus seems like an okay dude but is a whole 'nother deity character in this somehow monotheistic religion, which kinda seems like a lie too.
It’s unavoidable, after all religions have to deal with and interpret suffering and impermanence, and time kills everything we love… but the old testament just went hardcore with that angle, didn’t even try to sugarcoat it. God is a complete sadist asshole and will wreck your shit, on a whim. Because he can, and there’s nothing you can do to stop him. So submit peasant.
Yeah, Jesus had some decent stuff to say it’s hard to believe he was the same entity as the cruel “god” he’s claimed to be. How can an all seeing and all powerful being give people the power and essentially make them “sin” then commit world genocide with “sinners” as an alibi be interpreted as anything but unnecessary cruelty and sadism for the sake of scaring people into loyalty.
As someone who grew up with abusive parents it is eerie how much their behaviour is mirrored in the bible. Weird double binds, demanding worship because he created humanity, violent temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way (despite being “all powerful” apparently) Insecure, jealous and petty. If god were a person, he would be an abusive asshole who causes nothing but pain and suffering in the lives of others.
There was also that one part when the guy slaughtered his son as a secrefice and that one time where a bunch of people called Elisha bald guy and then got fucking ratioed
I really don’t understand how anyone can read the Bible and interpret God as anything but malevolent. You have all the “god loved the world” messaging sandwiched in-between a god who punished humanity for wanting knowledge, did the whole genocide thing, tested people like a toxic teenager with their very first bf/gf relationship, murdered his own son as a weird-ass nonsensical gift to the world that noooooobody asked for, murdered a lot of other people’s firstborn sons…murdered a lot of people period…
Jesus seems like an okay dude but is a whole 'nother deity character in this somehow monotheistic religion, which kinda seems like a lie too.
It’s unavoidable, after all religions have to deal with and interpret suffering and impermanence, and time kills everything we love… but the old testament just went hardcore with that angle, didn’t even try to sugarcoat it. God is a complete sadist asshole and will wreck your shit, on a whim. Because he can, and there’s nothing you can do to stop him. So submit peasant.
Yeah, Jesus had some decent stuff to say it’s hard to believe he was the same entity as the cruel “god” he’s claimed to be. How can an all seeing and all powerful being give people the power and essentially make them “sin” then commit world genocide with “sinners” as an alibi be interpreted as anything but unnecessary cruelty and sadism for the sake of scaring people into loyalty.
As someone who grew up with abusive parents it is eerie how much their behaviour is mirrored in the bible. Weird double binds, demanding worship because he created humanity, violent temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way (despite being “all powerful” apparently) Insecure, jealous and petty. If god were a person, he would be an abusive asshole who causes nothing but pain and suffering in the lives of others.
There was also that one part when the guy slaughtered his son as a secrefice and that one time where a bunch of people called Elisha bald guy and then got fucking ratioed