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[–] [email protected] 70 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That, or God's an arsehole, which all things considered...

[–] [email protected] 151 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's a fire quote

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Here's another:

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Isiah 45:7

In the land of intellectual adulting, however, people who know their history know the cult of YHWY, originally a single god from what was the Canaanite pantheon, clear evidence of which is still present in even the Old Testament, subsumed the mythological roles of protector and catastrophe, hero and villain, creator and destroyer in its path to monotheism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

From what i've saw from videos on religious archaeology, the "definitive" yaweh is an amalgamation of 2 or 3 gods into one, which explains why his personality varies wildly from text to text. Vengeful asshole here, incompetent god of war against iron chariots, all loving elsewhere

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Or God is a ten year old who is playing around with a world generating machine and has since forgot about us.

We're just one of the thousands of world saves he placed on a memory card and threw into the closet and forgot about.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, if you look at the pale blue dot imagery, it really captures how difficult it would be to find us looking down in the universal sandbox. We might have simply been overlooked.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Overlooked? ... in that scenario, we're just an unknown accident ... it's like that tiny piece of mold at the bottom of the sink drain

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Fucking zoom-in limitation and broken notification system