• Cyber Ghost@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Satan has not killed anyone though. Satan was the rebel who got tired of serving under a toxic boss. Hail Satan 😈!!

    • SovereignState@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      181·
      11 months ago

      I recommend Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France. One of the greatest ‘Romantic Satanist’ pieces out there, and written by a communist no less!

  • HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
    291·
    11 months ago

    Of course the actual figures for God must be expected to be much higher, since the source is known to be biased in His favour

    • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
      111·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, Jesus had some decent stuff to say it’s hard to believe he was the same entity as the cruel “god” he’s claimed to be. How can an all seeing and all powerful being give people the power and essentially make them “sin” then commit world genocide with “sinners” as an alibi be interpreted as anything but unnecessary cruelty and sadism for the sake of scaring people into loyalty.

    • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      11 months ago

      It’s unavoidable, after all religions have to deal with and interpret suffering and impermanence, and time kills everything we love… but the old testament just went hardcore with that angle, didn’t even try to sugarcoat it. God is a complete sadist asshole and will wreck your shit, on a whim. Because he can, and there’s nothing you can do to stop him. So submit peasant.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      As someone who grew up with abusive parents it is eerie how much their behaviour is mirrored in the bible. Weird double binds, demanding worship because he created humanity, violent temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way (despite being “all powerful” apparently) Insecure, jealous and petty. If god were a person, he would be an abusive asshole who causes nothing but pain and suffering in the lives of others.

    • Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.mlOPMEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      There was also that one part when the guy slaughtered his son as a secrefice and that one time where a bunch of people called Elisha bald guy and then got fucking ratioed

    • ComradeGiraffe@lemmygrad.ml
      16·
      11 months ago

      In a bet with god over if Job is only following god because his life is great. Satan asks for god’s permission, then kills Job’s family.

          • SovereignState@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            13·
            11 months ago

            Nah it’s ok. I was raised Southern Baptist so I was taught some really fucked up shit.

            For instance, the story of Ham. Ham was Noah’s only dark-skinned child. He beheld his father Noah naked, thusly condemning black folk to an eternity of divine punishment and slavery.

            I am not joking.

            Otherwise, a lot of the popular ideas surrounding heaven and hell are noncanonical anyway. The devil (or “the adversary”) is not described as having horns or cloven feet, there are no “circles of hell” (that comes from Dante), etc. etc. I prefer a more epic story for sure, and were I a Christian I’d probably be more attracted to Christian mysticism and integration of non-canon scripture into my beliefs anyway, like the Book of Judas.

            The war in heaven is most incredibly described, as I’ve recommended elsewhere in this thread, in Anatole France’s Revolt of the Angels. Lucifer is shown not to be a villain, but a revolutionary who kicks it with Russian anarchists and nihilists. He wants to introduce science to heaven, as he had introduced humans to science millennium prior.

  • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    11 months ago

    Retirement going great, just chilling out, taking vacations, having fun with the grandkids…

    God teleports behind you