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minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoGood deities don’t intentionally cause pain and suffering and drag everyone down with them. There’s nothing good about Satan.
minus-squareWIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoIntentionally causing pain and suffering is kind of God’s ballpark though.
minus-squareWIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoHave you ever heard of a lil’ book called The Old Testament?
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoThat’s a collection of books. And where does God kill people unjustly?
minus-squareBenVimes@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoWell, 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).
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoThe 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.
minus-squaremaynarkh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoThe flood sounds quite like collective punishment.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoThey deserved it. Everyone but Noah, which is why he was saved
Good deities don’t intentionally cause pain and suffering and drag everyone down with them. There’s nothing good about Satan.
Intentionally causing pain and suffering is kind of God’s ballpark though.
Where?
Have you ever heard of a lil’ book called The Old Testament?
That’s a collection of books. And where does God kill people unjustly?
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).
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.
The flood sounds quite like collective punishment.
They deserved it. Everyone but Noah, which is why he was saved
The innocents were saved from it