henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:49 pm
The God of the Bible...
(i) Anti-theist and anti-Christian. That is: you believe in the Christian God and you hate Him.
And here I thought you were
Sunny Jim the atheist guy.
incompetent vengeance
(ii) What a small world you live in where justice is synonymous with
incompetent vengeance.
He's not transcendent Love
(iii) No, He most certainly is not. Just, yes. Merciful, mebbe. Loving, no.
(i) Yep. I'm anti-evil and anti-inadequate, anti- an interventionist deity that shows no trace of intervening, i.e. anti- that meaningless unreason, anti- wherever anyone draws a line between the metaphoric and the literal in the Bible; from all the good, soft, nice things are literal and all hard, ghastly, cruel, dark, inadequate things, about God, right up to including Jesus' return, are metaphoric, to it's one seamless garment, as literal as possible, and Netanyahu is right.
And I am a sanguine, you were right. God knows how I'd react if I were like Him. Choleric.
I used to argue that He was pragmatic and that all would be well. See? Sanguine. In the face of His butchery. Life obviously means nothing to him.
(ii) I live in a world where social justice is such a fantasy and the poor counterfeit of justice is what you can buy. And the Palestinians are broke. And we're not talking about this world, where God is completely hands off, are we? Yours is anyway. We're talking about the next. Well I am. You won't know anything about it. So where does this certainly just deity of yours operate his justice? And where and to whom does he possibly exercise mercy? For what?
(iii) What's the point of a deity if he's incompetent? Only the incompetent exercise vengeance. If he were to evince himself and show himself to be incapable of facilitating equal outcome for all, that have suffered at his hands off, then he's not Love, no. But, thank God, there is no trace, warrant, need, possibility of such a monster.