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[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 85 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  1. My religion says you can’t do that to me, but I can do it to you.
[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kind of inevitable when they worship a god who is supposedly always right, yet evidently wrong and blatantly hypocritical. "Always right" obscures the hypocrisy, they twist themselves into knots trying to make it make sense instead of just admitting it is literal nonsense.

"That was the old covenant."

So god was wrong then, realized it, and changed?

"Well no, you're ignoring the context."

Slavery and rape were socially acceptable, and omnipotent god didn't want to rock the boat?

"We just can't understand omnipotence."

They somehow fail to acknowledge that if god is ALL-POWERFUL, literally anything that happens is because he chose it to happen.

"No, he gave us free will."

If he's all-powerful, there is no free will. He knew what we would do with it and chose to create us anyway. All of our choices are his choice. Also, what about times in the bible when god explicitly swayed someone's mind? And why are we being punished for someone else misusing the free will?

The bible exists to normalize, even glorify, abuse.

I hope people everywhere stop tolerating death cults.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

"I know what my God demands of you"

But when questioned further

"God works in mysterious ways"