Religious Cringe

Oooh look into the old testament. God is super petty. Christianity is a retcon

Because the concept of the Christian god is literally just the "divine" version of a man ruling his home as a king.

He can do whatever he wants because it's his home. Praise him because he lets you live in his house. Do what he commands because he lets you live in his house. Ignore the blatant abusive rhetoric because he lets you live in his house. Kill anyone who disregards his claim because it's his house.

Why does God hate amputees?

Ancient religions, including the period before the national religion of Israel became “monotheistic,” were very transactional. You make a sacrifice of a goat, you get rain. You spit on a temple, you get struck blind. You sit there peacefully herding goats, you get raped. The gods represented the view of the world and nature, which was often capricious and cruel.

Judaism, as it developed slowly into its more modern form, continued the transactional relationship but made it more formalized and more highly regulated by the priestly class. The difference in the teachings attributed to the early Christian belief system (I’m not going to get into whether there was a historical Jesus or what the relationship there might have been) was that they advocated for a less transactional relationship and went for a more emotional one. Of course, that’s problematic for organized religion, which relies on ceremonies and regulated behaviors, and you can see it as a constant tension running through history between different sects.

But dividing points of view/stories like this between transactional and “unconditional” can help to conceptualize some of these kinds of things, in my opinion.

It would ve kind of funny if god was just a huge dick. I'll let this random child speak while i watch the world championship of war.

The edge of the observable universe is about 270,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away.

Yet god exists and cares about this insignificant blue speck of wet dust?

That's deep, dude.

Also, if this god person doesn't want us to rely on them why would people worship or pray to them.

Furthermore, why would they reveal themselves at all?

mysterious ways

This happened. I was there. I am that child. I didn't speak my whole life like because it's all some mo bull shiiet. Then I saw mom giving this bleeding old man shit, and I figured enough is enough. My mom is one of "those" atheists. It's fucking unbearable.

The boy’s name? Albert Einstein.

It's true, I was the train.

Also first time, but I subscribed and look forward to more.