Rawr

[aesmael]

    I am up too late and Christian programming has come on television. Just now I have listened horrified to a man telling a story in which he stated outright that it was because the man in the story had remained faithful to his church that his son had returned alive from a war. He stated outright that if that man had left his church, his son would have come back in a box.

    People are people! They are not object lessons for others to learn from; they have lives to live in their own right. I am so very sick and tired of people talking about the hardships of others as a lesson for them, it makes me want to scream. Any god that would torment or kill someone - or refrain from doing so - for the education, reward or punishment of a third party is a disgusting, immoral creature and deserves our scorn.

    To calm down, please enjoy these images of Jesus beating up the Greek gods.

Cross-posted to atheist_rage

Comments

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Necessary words

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

It's awful and stupid :( And no loving God (or even a not so loving God) would be so cruel :\

[flynnacatri.livejournal.com]

Ohhh I hate those ones. They aggravate my scientific instincts. Forget the likelihood, justice - it's just so unproveable. Whichever way the man chose, they'd have found something good (or bad) in his life to blame it for.

[coniferous_you]

Yeah, you're right. It's pretty offensive when people present demonising examples of those belief systems that are counter to their own belief system in order to maintain the sense of absolute truth in their argument.

Alternately, God now gives out bottles of "Miracle Water" on TV and, if you use it - then you get to be a millionaire. Not kidding.

[coniferous_you]

Okay. So maybe I WISH I was kidding. But I'm not.

"I lived in a thousand dollar house and then I used this water and now I live in a MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE".

(Actual quote from the commercial.)

And then some man hit people on the head and they fell over because of God and I wasn't sad anymore that I missed all of the funny shows on the day I wanted to watch television.