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      Satan welcomes all people, from all walks of life, with open arms. God is a bigot who only accepts certain people, if they’re “good enough”. It’s also my understanding that God killed over 2-million people, while satan only killed 10.

      Tell me how God loves me unconditionally again?

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        And also God apparently has so much power he could fix everything in this world with little effort. But no, he specifically creates it. God created all there is, including all the bad stuff. Murderers? Rapists? Slave owners? …? Yep. But, “Do not question God’s intentions. He works in mysterious ways.”

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            All things dull and ugly,

            All creatures short and squat,

            All things rude and nasty,

            The Lord God made the lot.

            Each little snake that poisons,

            Each little wasp that stings,

            He made their brutish venom.

            He made their horrid wings.

            All things sick and cancerous,

            All evil great and small,

            All things foul and dangerous,

            The Lord God made them all.

            Each nasty little hornet,

            Each beastly little squid

            Who made the spiky urchin?

            Who made the sharks? He did!

            All things scabbed and ulcerous,

            All pox both great and small,

            Putrid, foul and gangrenous,

            The Lord God made them all.

            Amen!

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          There’s a great DarkMatter2525 video on this. By valuing “free will” over helping people, he directly favors evil. Man rapes woman, but god doesn’t help because “free will”. The woman had no “free will” to prevent it. Bad guy gets what he wanted, victim gets trauma.

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            Like free speech for Nazis, even though they’ve broken the social contract and don’t deserve air.

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          He also kills defenseless babies before they can be baptized. And if life begins at conception, why is God pubishing babies by killing them in the womb (aka stillborn)? Why do they deserve to be stuck in purgatory when they are innocent?

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      Story of Job is basically

      Satan: bet that guy wouldn’t worship you anymore if you ruined his life

      God: Totally would, watch me kill his whole family

      They are both on team asshole

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        I’m glad He’s imaginary. I mean I have burnt incense. Didn’t realise doing so carried a death penalty according to the Bible. I just thought it smelled nice

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      Technically, Satan is a creation of God. Otherwise christianism would be polytheistic. So even if you consider Satan as the good guy, God is still responsible for both good and evil.

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        Christianity is has almost always been so dangerously close to polytheism that it’s laughable it isn’t considered to be.

        It’s just bureaucracy at this point, I guess it’s not polytheism if you lower everyone to “middle manager god”

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        In the story of the Tree of Knowledge, the serpent old the truth while god lied.

        Between the two of them, only God kills in the bible, and boy he does it a LOT

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        Not even technically, just 100% that. God created the angels, Lucifer is an angel. In practice, many Christians practice a polytheistic religion in which Satan is the bad god.