Why does god put the needs of the few above the needs of the many?

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  1. Greatest I am

    Greatest I am Well-Known Member

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    I married one like my mother, but not for the body. Minds hold up better..

    The ancient mother goddesses who ruled so much better than our present gods of war, were always plumpish and looked to know when to slap their Trumpish children for lying.

    I have no proof for that last but know it is true. My god told me so.

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    That or told a truth about Yahweh's vile moral sense.

    Him and his blood sacrifices and all. blood blood blood. Always with this thirst for blood.

    It used to mean party time.

    But then literalist believers screwed things up and ruined the party.

    Gotta go now and kick start my Cherry Red cherub.

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    God laid out the two choices for us and the consequences but He is hands off at this point.

    Honestly you don't even know if they are His rules, maybe it's some sort of cosmic thing.

    As for Him telling us which way more people are going to choose could just be an educated guess like knowing if you put cocaine and food in front of a rat that it almost always chooses the drug first.
     
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    Sure we do.

    He wouldn't bow before God's creation which was man.

    Also He was kicked out but not permanently. There are places in the Bible that mention Him walking freely around in Heaven, The story of Job is one of them.

    Some people think being kicked out means he still has access to Heaven but cannot partake in it's glory, only observe others doing so and it enrages because He was the top, preferred angel of God until man came along.
     
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    Total waste of time, God should just vaporize anyone who is 'different'. Even you! Brilliant! :fart:
     
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    You misrepresent rat research and also speak of god's works as if you were there.

    Do you know what lying is?

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    The Christian god would if he were real. That is the promise of Armageddon.

    Just another genocidal day in paradise.

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    afaik that was an athiest interpretation
     
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    Sure, I do it all the time.
     
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    I prefer the Vedic view of evolution. Baby steps upwards each lifetime. just because you're not going to heaven straight away doesn't mean that you're going to hell
     
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    btw, using the correct interpretation, you dont think a battle between good and evil has ever and will ever exist because afayac God is imaginary therefore good and evil are imaginary?

    Seems to me battles between good and evil have been going on since the beginning of time? Can you produce evidence any of them were Christian genocidal?

    So lets say you are correct, How would a bunch of atheists running the show eliminate battles between good and evil other than in someones fertile imagination?
     
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    More like literalist.

    I do not care what label one uses for his or her ideology, but if it includes the glorification of a genocidal god, then it is garbage.

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    Yes. Baby steps that are all taken in our own minds.

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    Yin and Yang do not battle. They compliment each other.

    You need to see the evil in good and the good in evil in our dualistic universe.

    Atheists, like the religious, scientifically have reached a god of the gaps, just as religions have. Atheists, for whatever reason, are showing themselves to be more peaceful and law abiding than the religious.

    Atheists, unlike the religious, do not preach against the law of the land, en mass, and in collusion, the way the religious do.

    Atheists are not in conflict with the state whereas the religious are.

    The state should come down hard on those religions.

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    If all animals came from breeding pairs. like the Ark, then all animals would have died out from congenital abnormalities milllenia ago. You need about 60-65 individuals or the species will generally die though it can survive much altered. Cheetahs illustrate this best

    https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/cheetahs-brink-extinction-again/8th-grade/

    Noah and Adam and Eve both make no actual sense in light of what was known about reality and inbreeding even thousands of years ago.
     
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    There is no hell. Hell is a pollution introduced into Christianity or any other religion by the government for social control
     
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    It sure would be great if people would read the damn fairy tale and comprehend what it is saying.

    https://classic.biblegateway.com/verse/en/1 Corinthians 15:45
    In the Bible, only Jews are humans (men), and everyone else are animals and beasts. The Adam character represents the first male Jew and Eve represents the first female Jew.

    If people bothered to read the fairy tale they would see that the Garden of Eden was surrounded by Assyria, Ethiopia, Arabia, and Persia and of course Egypt. Those countries were there after Noah's flood, which is just a war story. The Noah character is important because he is the only person in the entire Bible who did exactly as he was told to do without any whining. He showed complete obedience and total loyalty to the Boss, even though he did not have an initial idea as to how he would accomplish his impossible task. That is what the Bible stories are all about. It doesn't matter what you are told to do, good or bad, just do it and keep your yap shut. When Saul exercised mercy he pissed the God character off and things ended badly for Saul. He was supposed to kill all of the enemy and all of their livestock without exception.
     
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    no complements yes, like your insufficient example, its a logical condition that has nothing to do with a battle.
    Of course its 'like' the religious, atheism is a religion.
    What atheists? Citation?
    Atheists have no moral code.
    But the atheists are religious and the state is their religion.
    They would go against their gods if they were in conflict.
    and of course you expect the atheist religion deserves a free pass. :roll:
     
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    You have not shown that any God is genocidal, except of course the atheist god, the state, lets talk about stalins god, marx, and how altruistic and benevolent stalin and mao was.
     
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    Thanks for the good sense.

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    Atheists deserve it for not preaching against the law of the land and showing themselves to be better citizens than the religious.

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    The bible does that for me. Have you read it? Do you not see a genocidal Yahweh?

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    You and Greatest I am may find this interesting. The authors credit Tertullian of Carthage and Augustine of Hippo with introducing Hell/eternal damnation into Christianity:

    Hell – Part 3: How & When The Idea of Eternal Torment Invaded Church Doctrine
     
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