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God and Religion Talk [278]
This reader's comment in Daily Mail is worth posting in its entirety...hopefully without objection...
In the Bible, God is a strong and ever-present actor in the world of human affairs.
He talks audibly, he inscribes on stone, he firebombs villages, he sends his angels around, he turns people to stone, he stops the sun, he makes a new star, he creates new languages, he sends scourges and plagues, he kills people, he sends his son and gets him killed - all of this up to around 100 AD.
Then something happens- or more accurately, nothing happens- God exits the stage, he goes completely silent, does nothing whatsoever.
To any person possessing a logical mind, this is a red herring. Why would an interventionist god suddenly become impotent? And remain so for 19 highly momentous centuries?
The effort needed to answer these questions is like trying to pick an apple hanging 5 feet off the ground - the god described in the Bible is fictional.As a father of two and a grandpa of four, the most compelling evidence that the last 8 words of the above are true is God's total and complete indifference when a little girl is being raped while her mother is watching and patiently waiting to be paid by the rapist. No, I am not making this up.
My God would evaporate the "mother" and the would-be rapist before he would get within a mile of the girl.
To add insult to the injury, popes have always been against the death penalty that their God was quick to deliver, often indiscriminately ... up to 100 AD.
From then on, God didn't give a fvck...no matter what the case....
