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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a crossover between Judaism and Irish fairy folklore. God can do everything except he can't touch iron because it burns him.

They just try to downplay that because knowing God's weakness kind of pokes a hole in that whole omnipotence thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

"Is it possible for God to make a metal so powerful, even he can't touch it?"

"Yes."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean, to play devil’s advocate, God being with Judah could have just been a colloquial way of saying they were successful, not necessarily that God couldn’t defeat an army with tricked-out wheels.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the point in being the chosen people of a god if the god can't even be bothered to help you conquer some heathens?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Apparently, getting to genocide the direct descendants of your God’s all-human all-God all-Spirit Earthly manifestation 2500 years later

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. Fun may resume at will.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But alas fun could not resume, for they had jokes of iron.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could God tell a joke so bad that even He couldn't laugh at it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

any of your dad's jokes should work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The Father, Son, and the Dad Jokes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ok, it's the devil's advocate, but they're still playing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

A god of convenience and coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Our god gave us the hills nobody lived and can’t farm.

That rich farmland must have already been claimed by a different god.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Dude created a world mostly filled with water, and His People can't even drink it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Terrible writing. "They" presumably refers to two different groups within the same sentence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

That's perfectly fine with a complex sentence that clearly refers to a separate group before the second usage.

It also wasn't originally written in English.