Comment on She strongly disagrees

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I dont know. Maybe we are evil for allowing half the planet to also have an opinion but it doesnt feel like evil. Feels like justice.

  But im still trying to understand. Perhaps its just so simple that the bible has been modified many times by men. That would explain a lot. But otherwise, I just dont see why women would not be allowed to use their brain and their abilities. If god didnt want that, why create them equal to men in abilities?

  Its hard to understand.

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  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    its hard to understand

    One might say intentionally impossible. Almost like theres a million contradictions that make it impossible to draw any actual conclusions. Almost as if its a tool designed to allow the church to control people by being the only source of “truth”

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  • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Makes me think God was a woman, and this is her pulling up the ladder.

    I’m not being serious, of course, but it’s a fun concept — to me.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean it’s not really hard to understand. God doesn’t exist he’s a creation of man, those men were often intimidated or wanted women to bow down to them and worship them. So therefore they created their own scriptures that reflected their own belief system and what they wanted to teach and be worshiped poor.

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• Knightfox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When discussing god with atheists it often comes down to a point similar to this, “God can’t be real because if god existed they wouldn’t allow XYZ.” In reality we have no reason to assume as much.

  If there is a god that entity could be flawed and faulty while still being omniscient and omnipotent. We assume that a being with human sentiments and unlimited knowledge would have to be a good being, but that’s not necessarily so. It’s entirely possible that if god exists it views us similarly to how we view ants and simply just doesn’t share the concerns or beliefs we feel are naturally just and fair.

  At the end of the day god could be a giant toddler on the playground and while they are unfair and unjust you have the choice of either believing and following (assuming the Christian god) to go to heaven or not believing and following and burning in eternal torment.

  This is all just a thought experiment, but the argument that god can’t exist because god isn’t good is inherently a flawed argument.

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve contemplated the possibility that there is a God but they regard us as no more real than we regard fictional characters. God, if they exist, could be on a whole different plane of reality than us. Why should they care about our problems? And if God has a plan for me, that might not necessarily be a plan that is good for me.

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  • FridaySteve@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is why the Bible is kind of a drag without the new testament. God is emotionally volitile, punitive, and illogical. Jesus provides a framework for redemption, which is what people need here in this life. Reading the new testament, even without the magic and miracles and omnipresent sky-god can give people real ideas about how they should interact with others in this corporeal existence. The old testament feels like kind of a bizarre fairy tale with some historical elements.

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  • NoWeJustSellShoes@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a good argument when the whole premise of Christianity is “God is all good.”

    Also I don’t think it’s even worth examining a flawed deity in the context of Christianity, because it’s clearly something they made up. “Whats that, lord? Go kill the people we don’t like and steal their land and take their virgins as war brides? Well if God says so 🤷”

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