2006-09-08 05:20:51 · 56 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes
Judaeo-Christians' own scriptures say it was Satan who offered humankind the choice of free-will, or continued enslavement to the tyrant-god. The first archetypical human couple chose freedom, and willfully disobeying the godly-tyrant partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, gaining self-consciousness and the ability for independent thought. (Genesis 2-3).
Satan is the first free-thinker and Saviour of the World.
2006-09-08 09:16:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's leave religious chauvinism out and look at the fictional character of the Israelite God and let's decide:
1. He makes Adam and Eve, naive and new, no experience with deception and manipulation, doesn't tell them the snake is their enemy and wants to trick them. They have no knowledge of good and evil, so disobeying god is an act of impulse, not evil since they have no knowledge of what is good and evil. So they have no idea of sin and wrongness, but they do something God tells them not to do, they don't know obeying God is good and disobeying is evil, but He punishes them and all their offspring for eternity for innocently disobeying and creates a place for them and their children to burn alive for all eternity because they committed evil without even knowing there was such a thing, so they could have formed no criminal intent. It's like having a mentally handicapped child watching you make cookies, you put them on the table and say "Don't eat these", walk away, knowing you can see everything they do, knowing they don't know it's wrong for them to eat the cookie, they see the pretty nice smelling cookie and eat it, so you return and pop them in the oven alive. Such a good God!
2. Pharaoh is treating people God likes harshly, so God sends a escaped murderer named Moses to pharaoh to tell him that a burning bush has said for Pharaoh let all the people go. Pharaoh doesn't take Moses seriously, so God kills all the first born children of Egypt. Such a good God!
3. God decides he doesn't like Amalekites and tells the people through his prophet to go kill them, but the soldiers, not being war criminals, don't kill the women and children. God's not happy,and his prophet insists the soldiers kill all the married women and male children, but they can keep the virgin girls as a reward. Such a good God!
Nope. I don't even have to get past the first few books of the Bible to pass judgement. The fictional god of the Israelites is a brutal evil bastard.
2006-09-08 05:42:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People say God is evil because evil exists, and he created everything. They could never have been more wrong. Does dark or cold exist? No. They're simple the lack of light or heat. A world that lacks God is a world of evil.
2006-09-08 05:25:58 · answer #3 · answered by Harb Frame 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, God is evil to the max. He has no heart, He destroys many lives. Look what happened to 9/11, He let innocents people die even though how much they prayed to God before the planes hit the twin towers.
2006-09-08 05:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am reminded of the beginning of the Boondock Saints here when they talk about how evil is really when good people have the power to do something to stop bad things from occurring. "The real evil in this world is the indifference of good men", was how it was put. Since God appears to indifferent to whether we suffer or not, yes he is evil.
2006-09-08 05:26:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is (allegedly) the source of everything. Therefore He must be the source of all evil. Which would make Him the most evil being in the universe.
2006-09-08 05:24:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He favors blind obedience -- even to the point of demanding that his followers commit evil -- over morality (see the story of Abraham)....
He puts his devotees through cruel tortures (killing his family, destroying his livelihood, inflicting him with disease) rather than endure the cajoling of one of his angels (see the Book of Job)...
He insists that he can do whatever he wants, and is above morality (again, the Book of Job)....
If that ain't evil, then I don't know what is! And if what we call "evil" for human beings can't also be applied to the biblegod -- if we are unable to evaluate his actions or "judge" him in this way -- than how can anyone POSSIBLY claim that "God is good"?
2006-09-08 05:26:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry but i'm going to answer your question with a quote (I don't like doing it but a man's got to do what a man's got to do):
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." Woody Allen
2006-09-08 05:30:56 · answer #8 · answered by Filipe F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. God is responsible for everything that exists and everything that occurs, including the existence of evil, and therefore must be evil himself.
2006-09-08 05:22:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, God is not evil, because GOD NOT EXIST :-)
"God" is a concept that was created by mankind.
Therefore :. Mankind is evil
2006-09-08 05:25:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋