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God: A Mass Murderer?

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Synomenon

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I'm an agnostic and have thought about these questions before.

So there are instances in the bible where God is shown as a mass murderer:
- The great flood
- Sodom and Gomorrah

Those are the two I can think of. Sure they were acts of divine retribution for all those sinners and non-believers. Does it not count as mass murder if it's done by the one that created the people being killed off?

If the religious are against killing, why do they worship a God that does it on massive scales?

Why would a loving God demand worship and send those that don't believe in him to an eternity in hell?

Also, if I remember what I read in the Bible, God killed a whole lot more people than Satan did.

Is there something I missed or did Satan go around masking himself as God?
 
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When we're all deserving of death for the crimes we've all done, its a mercy we aren't all crushed immediately. The OP included.
 
I think at least according to Judeo Christian worldviews, there was no death before sin existed, which wouldn't have existed without Satan. This means that if only God existed and Satan did not, there would have been 0 deaths.

I don't think this is the key issue at all though. What matters is whether or not God exists. Probably most of ATOT holds that there isn't such an entity, so the questions in the OP may be kind of meaningless here.
 
IsLNdbOi said:
Is there something I missed or did Satan go around masking himself as God?
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You know, I think you're on to something. I'd come closer to believing that there was a real God and Devil and the Devil is the one responsible for the bible than what Christians believe. Now that would be a trick worthy of the adversary of God.
 
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SlitheryDee said:
You know, I think you're on to something. I'd come closer to believing that there was a real God and Devil and theDevil is the one responsible for the bible than what Christians believe. Now that would be a trick worthy of the adversary of God.
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Alternatively we can just apply Occam's razor and conclude that the bible was most likely made up by humans.
 
JulesMaximus said:
Well, they're against abortion...so killing innocent women and children in the middle east should be equally reprehensible right? Or how about the death penalty? Oh wait, nevermind.
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They're against abortion until after the 4th trimester, then it's ok, because by then the little heathen is a sinner.
 
Well i dont care whether you agree or not, but by coincedence i just watched two recent documentaries in regards to the "ancient astronauts" theory, aka Erich v. Däniken. He made some references to abraham and the usual interpretations.

So i was just at the wikipedia site to fresh up my knowledge about Sodom/Gomorrha (yes i was raised catholic 🙂 - and its indeed interesting to read.

Mentions something like "God" destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha due to "going after strange flesh" - which is usually interpreted as homosexuality.

Needless to say the notion that a "god" would kill many people because of some sexual orgies or homesexuality...is ODD. (Didnt christianity ALWAYS preach tolerance? How can sexual practices be a reason for a death sentence? WTF this doesnt make sense.)

I really never thought about this, even raised as catholic when i was a kid.

So..if we take the "ancient astronauts" theories...things MIGHT make sense. One of the theories is actually that the ancient so called "gods" created hybrids...eg. mixing men/animals using gen manipulation.

This "strange flesh" could mean the "gods" (god?) saw they created beings but the experiment somehow went wrong....so he/they decided to kill them.

I know that some might think the thesis by E.v. Däniken et al. is nonsense.....BUT...please note that the assumption "god" killed people because of sins/sexual behavior is AT LEAST as absurd. IMO.

Edit: Interesting how in some bibles "strange flesh" becomes "perversion"...
 
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JulesMaximus said:
Well, they're against abortion...so killing innocent women and children in the middle east should be equally reprehensible right? Or how about the death penalty? Oh wait, nevermind.
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I've never met someone that doesn't find the killing of innocent women and children reprehensible, regardless of where they live. And please tell me that you understand the difference between killing an unborn baby (I know you probably disagree that a fetus is a baby, we'll leave that for another discussion) and the execution of a murderer?
 
Juked07 said:
I think at least according to Judeo Christian worldviews, there was no death before sin existed, which wouldn't have existed without Satan. This means that if only God existed and Satan did not, there would have been 0 deaths.

I don't think this is the key issue at all though. What matters is whether or not God exists. Probably most of ATOT holds that there isn't such an entity, so the questions in the OP may be kind of meaningless here.
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If God was smart, it would have killed Satan.
 
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