A Brief Summary of Christian Theology
Once upon a time God created a man and a woman (reason: probably so they could worship Him).
God foresees that man is going to screw up big time but made him anyway.
A talking snake tells them to eat an apple, and that is the beginning of all human suffering.
God tells a 600-year-old man to build a floating zoo.
The animals manage to survive the flood and all of life on earth today are descendants of the pairs collected on the ark.
God sets an example of faith by telling a guy to kill his own son.
God tells people to go on killing sprees.
And commands other people to eat their own children.
Then He sends some bears to kill some other children.
A man lives in a whale.
Some guys are trying to build a tower to reach the heavens. For some reason God feels threatened, so he makes them all talk funny so they won’t understand each other.
Jesus introduces the concept of eternal damnation as a solution to human suffering.
God loves His children so much that, to demonstrate his love, He sends His own child down to be gruesomely tortured and killed.
Jesus died for your sins! But, oh wait! He resurrected, so he didn’t die after all.
God knows of our suffering but doesn’t want to intervene, since He gave us free-will — as if he never intervened in the past. [scroll up]
God can help you win a football game but can’t help end poverty.
Because that would be violating our free-will.
Any questions?
No? OK, keep believing.
Sometimes I want to ask God why he allows poverty, famine, and injustice in the world when He could do something about it, but I’m afraid that He might just ask me the same question.
Bad analogy. He could magically wish it away. You can’t.
But there is something you can do, yes?
So you are a by-stander at the beach. You see a group of people drowning. No one else around you is willing to go down to help them. But you know you are capable of saving everyone — all of them. But you don’t. You want the others to learn a lesson from this tragedy, all the while knowing that they are sinful and probably won’t learn anything. They aren’t capable of helping themselves except through you. But no, let’s just watch them drown. For you to save them would simply be too much to ask. So you walk along and help a cat down a tree instead. Yes, you’re such a loving person.
Who says He isn’t helping them at all? See, the thing is that He doesn’t have too. He is God and we aren’t. He doesn’t need to be concerned with us. But, and this is a big but, He is. He loves us so desperately. You can call me delusional, close-minded, or whatever you like. But I have seen His love in action. When you’ve lost legs grow back, the blind receive sight, the deaf receive their hearing, and the dead rise there’s no denying He’s here and He loves us. Whatever has happened to you to make you hate God so much, I’m sorry.
I’m sorry but your worldview is simply abhorrent. When I lose my legs and they grow back I shall ask why God tends to me and not the tens of thousands of children who starve to death everyday. When the blind receives sight I shall ask the same question. No, he doesn’t need to be concerned with us, nor we him. But that is not how it goes. We are obliged to be concerned with him, or else. Yet you are ready to excuse him for his indifference, and yet insist upon calling him Good. So that when I say that God doesn’t help, you excuse his indifference, because he can do whatever he wants. And so that when he does do something slightly good, I am supposed to be grateful. This is blind totalitarianism in every sense of the word, and it is repulsive. But no, he is All Good, says the Christian. Then tell me again that he “loves us so desperately”, and tell it to those starving children who are on the brink of death, that somewhere else in the world God has supposedly done these great things, and they will ask why they are undeserving of the same treatment. And tell them too that they may be headed for even more suffering in the afterlife, for they have not taken heed of their missionaries. No, you would be wrong to think that I hate God. I am against Christianity for the fact that I think it is evil. And as much I doubt many things, including the existence of god, I can hardly say that I doubt dogma such as yours is a perpetual source of immorality in the world. And the less of it the better.
Good post. I can see that in a comic book form.
@jjmurph:
Do you have any pictures on that legs growing back thing? How about the sight being restored? Any actual doctors reports on these things?
Where is this god? I don’t see any gods. BTW it is not necessary to hate something to not believe in it. I don’t believe in Santa Claus and I don’t hate him. The simple fact is that people don’t really hate what does not exist.
You make a lot of claims for which there is no credible evidence. Such claims can be dismissed as fluffy delusion… and they are.
They took place in the bush of Kenya hours away from all medical attention. Hence why they were legless, blind, and dead in the first place.
“God can help you win a football game but can’t help end poverty.”
haha. I love this one. Oh the quirkies.
Yes, absolutely correct observation. I loved ur point when u said god helps win football matches but not in otherwise more important issues. I wrote a post sometime back wondering if such matches where a team thanks god for their victory amounts to cheating by god?
https://shitijbagga.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/when-god-cheats/
Pretty much sums up the Bible. Can’t see why we Atheists would have a problem with it.
at one point of view, you’re right, but how about the other POVs?
should yours be the only thing that’s right? haha…
questioning God about detestable things that happened today but find ourselves learning through those “detestable” moments, if our will is to be done alone, i seriously doubt the term “blessing in disguise” would be invented. we see it as chance but chance by definition is random..our learnings are never random, in fact it is something to equip us for whatever it is to come.