zombie;7318506 said:
@PapaDoc223
Yes god is a war god, this should be news to no one and yes he allowed ancient israel to slaughter their opponents this was done for the betterment of all mankind as it established the god israel for all time, and allowed israel to bring the messiah to mankind as it was his plan to redeem mankind from it's eventual destruction. That's why israel was chosen to be a "light to the nations" and it is from abraham that we get the 3 major religions of the world.
SO YES ISRAEL WAS CHOSEN but that does not mean he loved them more for all eternity, simply put they were used by god for the greater good of mankind, and according to the bible these same chosen people spent generations in slavery in egypt and after that at the hands of the romans.
that's why thousands of years later the belief in him is still going strong in most parts of the world and the gods of israels enemies are in the dustbin of history.
It is actually not god's job to stop people from doing evil to each other, this is the one thing that many people don't seem to grasp and many preachers don't preach because it's a hard pill to swallow. God is not a genie he is not going to keep all physical pain away it's not his job to stop theives in the night or stop rape and slavery, it's our job to not do those things in the first place, he redeems more than he prevents. People attribute little small things to him more than they probably should the bible says it rains on the good and the bad.
finally black people in america 2014 are no longer slaves, today we read the bible ourselves and come to our own conculsions. If you say that today we are brainwashed than in essence what you are saying is that black people are of inferior mind.
So if he is a God of war he can't be a God of love. Plus he used the Israelites as pawns to exterminate people then he is a sadist. So the people that didnt worship intead of appearing to them he allowed them to wiped out,enslaved and raped by the israelites. So this was God's plan:
"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."
Deuteronomy 21:10-14.
So basically fuck the people who get murdered and wiped out as long as his religion comes out on top that is all that matters. He not only a God of war but a sadist God.
Now you say it is not Gods job to stop evil. So if that is the case then people should all stop praying to him. If does not intercede to stop evil then he does not answer prayer. Baiscally God sits back and just watch how the world goes and see what happens next.
Christianity was forced upon our ancestors. It was a vehicle to say "I conquer you." Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the handmaiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people by conquerors. And used as the framework to control their minds. This was done to us and yes we are not slaves but Christianity was not given to us to nice missionaires but by the whip.