This doesn't detract from the basic message, but does the OT actually tell people to be "like God"? I thought that was what caused all the trouble in the first place.
Almost every Christian service I attend features as many or more Old Testament verses as New Testament verses. Sermons and messages are as likely to talk about an OT person or Paul (who declined to talk with Jesus' own brother) as the Biblical Jesus. Fascinating.
It's so gratifying to read something I've thougth since I was 9 years old and they told us in Religion class about the things god told random people to behead people or obliterate entire peoples 🫠
Also, assuming the universe was, in fact, created by some as yet unknown force, why the need to put a face on it and claim that it is interested enough in the going ons of this one planet circling this one star that it would listen to any one of us if arbitrarily pious enough?
The Bible tells us to be like
God, and then on page after
page it describes God as a
mass murderer. This may be
the single most important
key to the behavior of
Western Civilization.
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The Bible tells us to be like
God, and then on page after
page it describes God as a
mass murderer. This may be
the single most important
key to the behavior of
Western Civilization.
Robert Anton Wilson
https://youtu.be/8r-e2NDSTuE