• Flax@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Good deities don’t intentionally cause pain and suffering and drag everyone down with them. There’s nothing good about Satan.

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        I agree, that’s why I said that God, the one who sent locusts and killed innocent children, submerged the world for 40 days killing everyone indiscriminately, and razed Sodom and Gomorrah to the ground, is the evil deity.

            • Flax@feddit.uk
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              1 year ago

              That’s a collection of books. And where does God kill people unjustly?

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                Well, there’s the Flood and the Ten Plagues (particularly that tenth one) for starters.

                Then there’s the various war crimes committed by the Israelites at Jehovah’s explicit instructions (e.g. the genocide of the Midianites in Numbers 31).

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                  Not disagreeing with anything you said, I just find it mildly amusing when people call things war crimes when they took place before the Geneva convention. There was no international agreement on what a war crime is at that time, so technically nothing was a war crime back then. They were free to commit all the genocide they wanted.

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                  The flood spared the innocents (Noah’s family) and the plagues were done because Pharaoh wouldn’t free the slaves, the blood was on Pharaoh’s hands.

                  God just said to avenge Israel. Moses carried out the rest of the orders.

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                Nice little qualifier you added there. Cause it’s generally accepted that the God of Abraham ordained killing at least two million people prior to the birth of Jesus Christ. I get the sense that you’re perspective is that if God does it then it must be just and you want to prove anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong. If that’s the case, you’re in the wrong place my friend.