The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
2007-07-14 23:10:18 · 41 answers · asked by mia 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I love Mr Dawkins, I doubt he was due on though.
Blasphemy is a victimless crime
2007-07-14 23:23:34 · update #1
**Caveman, I wanted to give it a few minutes to see how many people would attack me for not knowing the facts and accuse me of ignorance re: the story before I told them. I always mention my source.**
2007-07-14 23:29:34 · update #2
Affalon, don't waste your pity on me. I'm a really happy person. I love life, I have a wonderful family and I'm free
2007-07-14 23:32:12 · update #3
Katherine, so I guess you are not a Dawkins fan (lol), by the way you spelled sesquipedalian wrong :-)
2007-07-14 23:35:59 · update #4
Dustin, I was raised a catholic, consequently Catechism was part of my upbringing, silly billy, you miss the point I don't want/need any god. Bekka I know, that's just a hiccup of copying and pasting
2007-07-14 23:56:45 · update #5
Dunno. How long, that is! I've been saying the same thing for months now, and I've had a few violation notices.
What is interesting, I find, is how many Xtians try and disassociate themselves from the drooling psychopath they actually worship, by saying that somehow the personality of god as revealed in the OTdoesn't count, and that their god is a god of love and peace. It does make you wonder if they ever actually read the bible!
2007-07-14 23:16:25 · answer #1 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
The problem with your theory is, of course, the same with the book itself. What is transcribed is a collective of persecptives of Man's history by a particular group of men.
Like any otherview point it is biased in favour of the journalists bent.
What they gave us was food for thought and some jolly good stories.
To be fair, if I'd spent the best part of a week creating the world and these people came along and trashed it I'd have been a bit peeved too.
2007-07-14 23:40:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends if you worship the old guy or the new ones, because if the violation notice angels worship the new guys you'll get away with some turning the other cheek and if it's the old guy...well then I think he'd probably think you did a good job on most of it and you have nothing to worry about. Of course if the angels happen to be atheists then it's all over because you might have offended something that shouldn't logically exist to them.
I'm giving it 1 to 12 odds on not going away.
2007-07-14 23:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by jct101 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you're conversing the actual fact, yet this international HATES the actual fact. Being political suited is yet another sin, it somewhat is many times mendacity, making excuses for sinning. there are an excellent variety of historic books that tells the actual fact approximately Islam and Muhammad, however the international does not prefer human beings to understand this certainty distinctly people who save on with this cult and people who communicate approximately God yet are so some distance far flung from Him yet they attempt to tell others approximately God of their lack of know-how. The Bible tells us that people who're not stored (born returned) can not understand the scriptures for God has stored it hidden from them who're not His. enable's see if we the two are taken down even inspite of the indisputable fact that "NO" violation has been made because of the fact certainty is on no account a contravention except people who're depraved hate the actual fact. Many in this international are enthusiasts of darkness and hate the gentle of certainty!
2016-09-30 01:00:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I have found Him to be the most glorious, wonderful, loving , merciful, perfect Being, full of goodness and all that is right and desirable for peace and happiness and Who is worthy of all worship and praise and adoration.
Funny how people see things differently.
Are you missing something?
2007-07-15 07:39:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not just the christo-judaic-muslim god, most gods have an extremely unpleasant side, read the Illiad to see how the Greek gods were complete gits when they wanted to be. Gods are modeled on human nature, but on a grander scale so when they loose their tempers they'd quite happily unloose devastating disasters.
2007-07-15 00:06:41 · answer #6 · answered by numbnuts222 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not long enough...it's a shame to see so many people brain washed by the Bible, despite is being a piece of fiction written by some men thousands of years ago.
2007-07-15 01:41:24 · answer #7 · answered by Cerebus_shun 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Looks like you haven't read the bible at all. You took what pieces you wanted to, and put them together, and without any knowledge - verbally bashed the only true Living God.
What you want is a god to suit your own selfish wants, and personal desires. Your question is full of lies also. Control-freak? Yea giving people their own free will to kill him and spit in his face sounds like a control freak to me....
Racist? He made every race, but all of a sudden he's racist?
Your question should be more like "I will never agree there is a God because i'm too self-righteous, so I would rather end up in hell for eternity, does this dress make me look fat?"
2007-07-14 23:41:46 · answer #8 · answered by Dustin M 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Ok random, random, random. You're point exactly is.....? cos it ain't worked on me.
oh btw you said sadomasochistic and megalomaniacal, capriciously malevolant bully all twice.
2007-07-14 23:43:56 · answer #9 · answered by ♥ Bekka ♥ 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Under an hour for a violation notice and removal of the question..
2007-07-14 23:14:14 · answer #10 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋