On 19 Apr 2006, at 12:56AM, Max Battcher wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
On 19/04/2006, at 12:53 AM, Deborah Harrell wrote:
But I have
problems with the 'planned betrayal,' as this makes
Judas a stool pigeon, and God an underhanded schemer.
Indeed, it brings to mind the entire Garden bit as
another planned betrayal.
Precisely. It's yet more of why this "loving god" made less and
less sense to me. There's just too much vengeance and sadism
ascribed to this deity... just makes no sense. Mind you, neither
does much else of it, to me. Not any more.
I personally see it as the inherent flaw in the Judeo-Christian-
Muslim religions. I can't understand why people would choose to
worship a deity (Yahweh/God/Allah) that punishes with the one hand
and simultaneously provides and supports with the other hand. It's
why I don't fault the Niceans for coming up with their (somewhat
odd) Trinitarian belief: because it is an easy way out when you can
claim that the left hand is truly ignorant of the doings of the
right (as well as the easiest way to end a debate, by saying: hey,
you are all right _at the same time_. 3=1, 1=3, God=devine human
son=crazy near-pantheistic voodoo cloud). The soap opera digests
that are Polytheism is just so much easier to explain/take in
comparison. So what if Odin didn't always know the stupid stuff
Thor and Loki were out doing?
Monotheism jumps the shark before it even gets started. God is good,
but he is also evil - or is it the other way around? And as a story
the Judas/Crucifixion thing makes no sort of sense of any kind. The
son of god, who could beat up Superman with one hand tied behind his
back, allows himself (or pretends) to be sacrificed for some obscure
reason but then pops back to life again anyway. What??! Two millennia
of fanwankery hasn't managed to patch up those plot holes. Elephants
on the back of a giant turtle makes more sense.
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