I've studied theology and find the God of the main three Abrahamic faiths to be absolutely monsterous. I am having a hard time going to church and hanging out with people who can say nothing about how good their God is while they completely ignore everything he has done. In the OT slavery is condoned, women are looked down upon as inferior, God tells his people to kill multiple groups for not believing in him, one is told to kill their own kin if they worship another God. I just can't get my sense of morality to swallow this, no matter how hard I try.
I also can't get past the point of an eternal Hell. It makes no sense to me, and is perhaps more twisted than anything I wrote above. People choose their religion based on where they are born, of course they've heard of Christianity, but they were tought a different religion, just as you were taught yours.
I want to believe there is something there, but I don't think I'll ever be able to believe in such a God.
2007-10-28
11:29:16
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