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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The Abrahamic god is evil.

Its a fiction, so it can be whatever you like.

I tend to see people fixate on the ugly and abusive verses when they are trying to justify violence. But if I picked up a copy of "Conan the Barbarian", read the bit where he says what is best in life is "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!", and then start swinging a baseball bat at anyone nearby I don't like, it would be a wildly insincere to assert "Conan is evil because look at all the people with baseball bat injuries around me!"

Don't confuse the problems of an Evil God with the problems of Evil People who are looking for social permission.

[-] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I’m not talking about specific verses, I’m talking about the actions of the abrahamic god as depicted in the texts. The actions of the abrahamic god are consistently abusive at the least, when he’s not being full-on genocidal.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I’m talking about the actions of the abrahamic god as depicted in the texts

It's a fictional creature, though. If you don't like those texts, just go read the apocrypha instead. Or write your own fan fiction, like the Mormons did.

Viola, the Abrahamiv God is good again.

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