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God created hell so we can one day drag his psychotic ass there.
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Wat.
Uhm… ever heard of Sodom and Gomorrah? Wiped the fk out nuclear strike style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2AbrETkZLE
Archeologists confirmed.
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To each its own /shrug
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The story reads like a near miss for the protagonist as a volcano wiped out a town, plus many years of improvements to the story
I’m not planning on watching your video, but I’m sure they found a pillar of salt and generically tested it to find it was actually a god-scorned woman /s
Hold your hat sir, you have been found to be spreading misinformation
The archeologist opinion is
Despite the hype, archaeologists have consistently reaffirmed over the years that the formation is natural, not the result of a petrified shipwreck, and that there is no geologic record of a global flood like the one described in religious texts.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a45700571/was-noahs-ark-found/
Shipwreck? Sodom and Gomorrah are two ancient cities that were obliterated.
If you don’t want to go into the Noah’s Ark hoax then the Sodom and Gomorrah has no evidence but one city Tall el-Hammam may have had a comet burn up above it.
It is unknown why people left afterwards though there are theories
The connection between the two is that oral history is exaggerated so people remember it
If He was up there chillin, letting this happen
Doin nothin, He’d be in need of a slappin
-Insane Clown Posse, Where’s God?
Don’t forget… Gamboling is a deadly Sin… Proceeds to fuck with Lot to win a bet
I think you meant gambling, but gamboling is probably disallowed by these nitwits too.
“Yaehab, such demonstrations of joy allow Satan into your heart!” *Backhands child*
Rules for thee but not for me
I’m not saying it’s real, but if it was, can you really make a case for all 9 billion people (or however many there are now) to have the same powers as a God?
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Based.
Note that the seven deadly sin isn’t present in the bible, and is a later addition.
Yep. The whole idea of seven deadly vices and seven heavenly virtues is a Christianization of the Ancient Greek ideas of virtues and vices. There really isn’t a direct connection to the Bible.
This is cringeworthy, but then most Internet atheists are.
(And I’m an atheist just not the reddit type)
Your comment is cringeworthy 😡😡😡
I agree, I usually keep to myself but I sort of hoped lemmy could do better than other social media in criticism of religion. But no it’s still the same strawmanning that they do in religious circles towards us. I feel that it vindicates the religious that when they come here, all they see are very bad arguments against their belief system.
If you read the old testament in particular, god never denies the existence of other gods, only that he’s the best one. Yahweh was actually just one god in an ancient pre Jewish pantheon. He was like Dionysus, a god of harvest and wine and rebirth. Different tribes had different chief gods, but all accepted the existence of the others. Just happened over time that the people who worshipped Yahweh were the only ones left and it became a monotheistic religion.
I’m sure back in the day, those gods were more similar to Greek gods, flawed and monstrous, and entities to fear. That’s why the old testament god is such a psychopath.
Its a shame that a lack of hard evidence and a disdain for looking for more from theological groups resisting demystifying their religion means we don’t know or have records on a lot of the early days of poly to mono theism.
Considering it looks like the 18th Dynasty of Egypt had a push to move away from Poly in Amun that involved building a new captial with the help of skilled laborers from the North Canaanites only to be be attacked for their position by the older poly religious leaders causing the downfall off the new capital falling and the workers fleeing back across the desert…
I mean there is so much to piece together of how politics and the empires of the time influenced how we as humans and religions developed but then you might ruin the idea of magic with real world incredible stories.
Do we know what/who the other gods were?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwism
At the head of this pantheon was Yahweh, held in an especially high regard as the two Israelite kingdoms’ national god.[3] Some scholars hold that the goddess Asherah was worshipped as Yahweh’s consort,[3] though other scholars disagree.[4] Following this duo were second-tier gods and goddesses, such as Baal, Shamash, Yarikh, Mot, and Astarte
Some appear in the bible or are mentioned. Baal I know was one. And was later turned into a satan thing by medieval Christians. Ashira as well gets mentioned in the Bible in a vague sense, but she was the wife of Yahweh.
They mentions the egypts gods too, don’t remember where, I only know because my mom got angry at me when I questioned that part lmao
Elohim (one of his several names; I like this one, because it betrays his Canaanitic roots) is one of several Canaanitic gods, which makes a lot more sense than him being the only god yet him being jealous of other gods (that don’t exist).
Edit: El was also portrayed as a calf, which makes the worshipped golden calf make a lot more sense in the story of Israels formation. What does not make sense is the pre-Israelites going to a land they already lived in, historically speaking
I’ve never seen any evidence of him being anything but a war and storm god similar to Baal.
Great video on it for those interested: https://youtu.be/mdKst8zeh-U
Not sure the gluttony thing is right. Has God ever been described eating literally anything?
He didn’t create Eden for his future humans
People get mad when God waits to punish evil then get mad when He actually does it. If God punished evil immediately, we’d all be dead lol.
Also, in terms of tithing, it doesn’t have to go to a church, just to a selfless but good cause. I even saw giving money to a friend who was financially struggling and had a bill to pay that they couldn’t pay a “tithe”. Asking people to give to charity isn’t greed
People get mad when God waits to punish evil then get mad when He actually does it.
Never happened, nothing to be mad about. If you mean as an hypothetical scenario where a God exists and he punishes evil then I’m not sure people would get mad, unless they’re evil themselves.
Internet atheists constantly criticise God for things like Sodom and Gomorrah or Jericho, or The Flood
I hope they criticize the idea of a good God commiting or letting people commit such atrocities when an alternative is available.
I can only speak for myself because atheism doesn’t inform you much about one’s belief system but the problem of evil expressed well my issue with the idea of a good God being more than apish fabulations. And to add to this point, religious people who died despite praying and living under the covenant aren’t able to witness the futility of the practice, only the few who survived do so.
But you’re arguing against a god that’s not the God of Christianity. You’re arguing against a strawman god.
hope they criticize the idea of a good God commiting or letting people commit such atrocities when an alternative is available.
And to add to this point, religious people who died despite praying and living under the covenant aren’t able to witness the futility of the practice, only the few who survived do so.
The God that Christians believe in does punish evil- through Heaven and Hell. Evil will be punished at the judgement. The punishment for sin is Death, so if God punished evil as it happened, literally nobody would be left.
As to you talking about Christians (I assume) who “died” despite praying, they’re in Eternal Glory now. A Glory so magnificent that they wouldn’t even spare a thought for the suffering they went through while on earth.
All God that is defeatable on the mind of a believer is a strawman God, as for it being the God of Christianity^TM well that’s a whole other can of worm.
A lot of what I’m talking about gets lost in translation and the way you equate sin with evil shows how we need a better way of communicating than church words if we want to have a better conversation.
I guess the best way to present it is that if you think the Christian God is a good God then he’s not showing it in the reality we can experience.
Sin and evil are equated lol. And any God who convicts people of their evil will be disliked by them, like how an angry kid dislikes a reasonable teacher
Isn’t sin by definition offence against a God? The way I understand it christians see God as the ultimate authority. Like a father to a son. It makes sense given the fact that we are raised in an authocratic environment. I guess my point is when someone doesn’t believe in the concept of God, good and evil as an authority is nonsensical. Eutyphro dillema and all that.
If you want to understand an atheist then you need to understand this first. If you mostly care for the carrot and sticks of your particular religion then I understand why you aren’t motivated towards having a productive conversation.
As far as I know these sins are only sins for mortals. For example pride is wrong because you worship yourself instead of God. Sloth is wrong because it would be your job to better the world, not God’s and so on.
Right, God knows better than you and is above it all you stupid animal, sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up, and blindly follow whatever the newest version of the Bible says, because that’s what “faith” means
Envy is an interesting one, I think this is usually based primarily on the ‘Golden Calf’ story.
There’s a bit of context that makes that story much more interesting. The stories that eventually led to what we think of as the christian god depict god as a bull. It brings up the possibility that the story wasn’t calling out against worshipping other gods but instead a warning against reverting back to old ways, changes how you approach the story.
Historical evidence there is really all over the place though, there’s a LOT of other interpretations and possibilities.
the one unique thing about the religion that became the abrahamic religions was that its followers went around the fertile crescent destroying other peoples temples and attempting to convert everyone to their religion and saying that their god was the only real one, and they never stopped doing that. Regardless of the interpretation of that one particular fantasy i think this particular god has the whole envy thing pretty well locked down.
God is a sigma
I know Anon is, uh, joking and we shouldn’t use a 4chan greentext for real discussion, but the wrath and envy points are why I’m more inclined to believe the Gnostic version of Christianity over the others. It’s super weird and telling that the Judeo-Christian God is extremely jealous.
