Yadda you KNOW what a monster your god is.

You've read the bible.


You've read what god commanded his followers to do.



You KNOW he's a monster but you dont want to BELIEVE it.

I understand that.

You have invested your whole life (and afterlife) in the belief of this gods justice , compassion , righteousness and sanity.


It would be INCREDIBLY hard for you to fight against your desire for your god to be a kind one , who will reward you for your belief and worship.


But you KNOW he's a monster yadda.

You KNOW IT.

You've read it but your mind is ignoring the monstrous bits and cherry picking the less monstrous bits.



Your god DEMANDED the genocide of whole populations of people (because they werent jewish).

You god rewarded insane , brutal monsters for doing insane brutal , monstrous things in HIS NAME.


You know this more than most christians because you've read it.


You are experiencing cognitive dissonance .





Come on.


Be honest.

Joshua




So Joshua defeated the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings; he left no one remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the God of Israel commanded.

(11:1-4) People of Hazor, Madon, Shimron, Achshaph, northern hill country, Arabah, Naphoth-dor, Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites and the Hivites unite against the Israelites.

(11:14) All the spoil of these towns, and the livestock, the Israelites took for their booty; but all the people they struck down with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed.

(11:20) For it was God’s doing to harden their hearts (the Canaanites) so that they would come against Israel in battle, in order that they might be utterly destroyed, and might receive no mercy, but be exterminated, just as God had commanded Moses.

You know that's nonsense.


You know that god is cruel.


You know that god demanded the extermination of men , women and children.



Don't play dumb.

Yes you are.


6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.



2:11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.


21:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.      (21:34-35)

21:35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.

bobbythefap1 wrote on Mar 14^th, 2012 at 4:49pm:


which is one of the reasons I am not a jew.

John 13:34-35   - the 11th commandment:

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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.


Romans 8:1-14.

Psalm 137:9

Always a favourite

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