this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
578 points (95.4% liked)
memes
14697 readers
4516 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
To me, the actual main problem with the interactions between Moses (as a proxy for Yahweh) and Pharaoh...
... Is that for the majority of ultimatums that God instructs Moses to give to Pharoah... God also 'hardens his/Pharoah's heart', which compels Pharoah to not comply.
Like, outside or above the scale of things threatened... God literally mind controls Pharoah, manipulates his emotions, and forces him into saying no, not acquiescing or truly negotiating.
This happens multiple times.
So now... God isn't just an asshole threatening insane plaugues and death... God is just puppeting Pharoah at these key moments, so basically God is orchestrating this entire chain of events... he was in total control the whole time... God is thus just punishing the Egyptians, while also doing a kabuki theatre, a false flag, whatever, to make it look like they actually had choices and chances to avoid this, to make it look like they willingly defied his will... when this was not the case.
This takes God from a belligerent asshole into now also being a sociopathic, deceptive manipulator.
Its abuser mentality.
What are you talking about? That's not what happened.
If that is what happened, it wasn't that bad.
If it was that bad, you deserved it.