WOTM: Doing God's Dirty Work
Richard Dawkins wrote that now-famous line from the God Delusion about the Old Testament god being the most unpleasant character in all of fiction. But even worse than that, He makes his followers equally (if not more so) unpleasant. The Bible itself shows God doing this very thing, and actually seems to be proud of it. WTF?!!! In this video, I argue that Richard didn't go far enough.
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"A touch of genocide with a side of rape sprinkled with a little holiness" ... leads you to realize that religion is so very similar to a bad case of food poisoning!
I've been watching this video over and over. The points, timing and humour are so well done! I live in a country where the Christian party is very close to being evicted from the government coalition because there simply are almost no Christians left. (Go Thor!) Only a few old people go to church on Sundays, while the kids stay home playing Fortnite or swiping on their phones.
I read the Bible several times when I was a child...aged 12-13 when we went to a Baptist Church. I remember being horrified by that conquest of Caanan story, and sickened that we were supposed to believe God was Great. I thought, if God was so great he could turn some nearby uninhabited land into a land of milk and honey, couldn’t he? The pastor literally said that my questions proved that I was listening to Satan, and needed to pray more. 🤬
Your wickedness will NOT go unrewarded. Not if I have anything to say about it.
Bullseye! The icing on the caca is that believers long to spend eternity with that psychopath. Are they nuts? I'd much rather end up in outer darkness, as our ex-cult claims. Thank Gaia I now know I just… won't… exist.
Yeah, living with the torturer, knowing He's causing the eternal suffering of everyone they knew who didn't believe as they did has to be heaven! #gross
He may have ordered genocide, but God loves us all, or so I am told!
He loves us... and he NEEDS MONEY!!!! That's Carlin, not me. But oh so beautifully said.
The truly shocking thing is the the "conquest of Canaan" which was a religious purging of those who did not convert to Yahwehism, was fictional portrayed as a massive conquest of war. The authors of this fictional account (the scholarly consensus among Jewish theologians that this is indeed fiction) thought that all of that genocide, rape, brutality, and mayhem made their god look good! Gee, in a fictional account, they could have presented their god any way they wanted to, including an actual historical account but chose the unspeakable horror that they produced instead.
RIGHT?!!! That's the most amazing part. And it really does demonstrate the human origin of all these stories. Mr. Deity always hated how his people portrayed him. Ha!
Thanks Brian, for your insight, snark and persistence.. Much gratitude for your efforts and the pleasure it's brought to us/me
See!!! You just made my fortnight, BFF!