Some of y'all aren't going to like this one, but the truth hurts.
Government is just secular religion, and religion is just old-school government.
Both rule by fear, indoctrination, and blind allegiance to an unquantifiable entity.
@eriner how is government not a quantifiable entity? And I don't feel ruled by fear from God at all. And God never indoctrinated me either, I walked my own path. I rejected the premise, was an atheist for decades, until I realized I needed to defend by position, reaching for the truth, for the origins, led me back.
I became to believe in Jesus because his words are so pure and filled with truth. I also do not like to call myself a Christian becuase then I take on sins of the "Church"'s
@Zahadoom ah yes, God doesn't rule by fear.
Of course not.
He just allows his ex-disciple Satan to punish everyone who doesn't prostrate themselves before God with ETERNAL HELLFIRE AND AGONY.
@Bunnyslope Yes, in the Old Testament Hell was literally on earth.
Plagues of locusts. If God didn't like you he would tell you to murder your first born child and if you didn't, he was going to punish you and your family because he's God and you're just an ant.
Actually, in that particular case he tortured Abraham anyway just for Lols.
If God is real, he's sick, evil, and this is Hell.
@Tepid_Tapir @eriner @Crux_Invictus @Moon You’re confusing different stories.
@Crux_Invictus @Bunnyslope @Tepid_Tapir @Moon
> Egypt was at war with God
"All right y'all Egyptians have fucked with my ass too much.
"Y'all have rejected my terms of total servitude and slavery too many times.
"I'm gonna take it out on this guy Abraham who had nothing to do with any of that and make him think he has to kill his kid (lol).
"I am a loving and merciful God, am I not?"
@ThatMushroom @tyler @Bunnyslope @eriner @Tepid_Tapir @Moon I believe you're thinking of Acts 17 where St Paul addresses the Areopagus:
30 "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
@ThatMushroom @tyler @Bunnyslope @eriner @Tepid_Tapir @Moon The KJV of verse 30 translates overlooked as winked:
"And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:"
Which might be what you're remembering.
@eriner I didn’t say he wasn’t a vengeful God. He absolutely was in the OT. Just that the concept of Hell is a newer idea.
@Bunnyslope @eriner The Popular Concept of Hell is more Dante's Inferno than it is Scriptural.