• Patches@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Satan doesn’t whisper “Believe in me”. He whispers “Believe in yourself”.

    Satan is rad as hell.

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      4 months 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.

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          Sodom and Gomorrah deserved it, it was made clear in that by Lot existing. Everyone in the flood also deserved it, apart from Noah which is why Noah was saved. The “children” weren’t innocent or else God wouldn’t have killed them.

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            Do you realize that you’re justifying genocide on the pretence that people you never knew “deserved it”?

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              God knew them though. And it wasn’t because of their race, but because of what they did.

              Also, how was Sodom and Gomorrah ‘genocide’? It had nothing to do with race

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                You are living proof that religion is mental disorder and Abrahamic religions should be utterly abolished with extreme prejudice. You are the evil this world needs cleansing of.

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                  I disagree with the notion that religion is a mental disorder. I myself don’t subscribe to religion or the notion of a god, but you need to be careful with how you say things like this as this will feed into christian feelings of persecution. This kind of rhetoric is exactly what the christian god has done. Cleanse the unbelievers because they’re evil. Do not commit the same failure that this other guy is. We can’t commit the same crimes as the proposed yaweh and think ourselves morally superior.

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          If going by Christian theology, literally every atrocity in human history was caused by Satan. Even if fictional, there’s literally no redeeming qualities of Satan

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            Interesting, so who created the fruit of knowledge? Who then decided that we would die and feel pain? Who flooded the earth? Who took up a bet to torture job? And that’s barely scraping the old testament

            Meanwhile, who offered food and water to a starving madman in the desert?

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              We decided we’d die and feel pain. We deserved the flood, and it was literally satan who tortured Job. satan didn’t even offer Jesus food, he just told Him to turn the rocks into food with His own power.

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              4 months 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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                  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.