• Flax@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    If going by Christian theology, literally every atrocity in human history was caused by Satan. Even if fictional, there’s literally no redeeming qualities of Satan

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      8 months ago

      Interesting, so who created the fruit of knowledge? Who then decided that we would die and feel pain? Who flooded the earth? Who took up a bet to torture job? And that’s barely scraping the old testament

      Meanwhile, who offered food and water to a starving madman in the desert?

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        8 months ago

        We decided we’d die and feel pain. We deserved the flood, and it was literally satan who tortured Job. satan didn’t even offer Jesus food, he just told Him to turn the rocks into food with His own power.

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          You missed a very, very important keyword there: “deserved.”

          Theologians miss a key point of rational debate where they don’t provide proper definitions and make big assumptions that aren’t great.

          Who defines what the “correct” effect of an action is? Who defines what consequence is deserved by a choice? If God is the almighty being, he decides what is right and wrong. In Abrahamic tradition, God defines all of these arbitrary rules and expects humanity to obey them without question. Shit, God ordered Abraham himself to murder despite that supposedly being against the rules.

          God is like a kid that holds a magnifying glass focused on an arbitrary point near the anthill. He set up the conditions for us to hurt ourselves according to his arbitrary rules. Why didn’t he tell Satan to fuck off with the fruit? Why did he allow Satan to exist in the first place? If God created everything, then he is responsible for everything by our human logic. So God can fuck right off

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              8 months ago

              Oh no I didn’t mean I haven’t been asked by mortals. Are you claiming to be God?

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                8 months ago

                Why does the distinction matter? I can still help show you to freedom if you’d like.