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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

God vs. Man, part 1

A recent article I read led me to describe one of my reasons for having chosen to avoid organized religion on the whole (before I became an atheist). Here is my reasoning:

God, as described from the three most common religions practiced in the United States—Islam, Judaism and Christianity—is omniscient (all knowing), omnipotent (all powerful), and omnipresent (always around). He is also quite apparently sexist, but that is another topic.

God is supposed to have created mankind in his own image (is that vanity?). When He created mankind, He was fully aware of all events that had occurred before said creation, were occurring during said creation, and would occur in the future. Given that foreknowledge, he knew that he would be disobeyed regarding the rule not to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. He didn’t make any move to stop it—in fact, He allowed it to occur despite his foreknowledge of events. He then acted as if He was disappointed in man (guilt trip?), and punished them for eating the fruit, casting them out of Eden and leaving them with pain, hunger, disease and mortality.

Every time I bring up this subject to religious practitioners, they avoid the question I’m asking, “Doesn’t this behavior suggest that God is a sadist?” After all, would you punish your child for doing something you could have prevented?

1 Comments:

Blogger yo said...

xax, thanks for the post on my blog and, if you don't mind, many thanks also for your posting a link to my blog from your post. and keep me on your list as i like what you write about.

david
http://messagetoamerica.blogspot.com

March 13, 2007 1:20 PM

 

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