with genetic flaws to make our lives short and difficult.
This is no miracle.
Miracles don't have to be good luck. They don't have to make your life better. Miracles are simply a defiance of the natural laws of the universe.
This is subjugation.
That god is a farce and not worthy of any respect.
Kicked mankind out of "the garden" for learning his true situation so that he could not have easy access to remedy the built in genetic flaws.
With power comes responsibility. Unfortunately, this concept isn't always honoured, with CEOs getting salaries in excess of $400,000 and not sharing their hard-earned wealth with the least fortunate in society.
Languages confused as we made progress in spite of god's damnable interference and malicious manipulations.
It was an educational technique. Humanity needed to learn how to handle conflict.
We are still in this handicapped, deformed situation thanks be to god.
I think we have made progress. We have learnt from adversity.
How can they presume to sit in judgement when they are guilty of the crime?
Their crime? That's just your perspective. Crime is just a word with a negative connotation. If I can form an alternative perspective it means that it wasn't really a crime. Some people simply see it that way. The word simply labels something as "good" or "bad."
Judgment? If there is no injustice in the world, then why do we have laws and courts? It's almost like you're denying the existence of evil.
A bunch of mischievous American bankers lends hundreds of thousands of dollars to people who don't have a job and could never pay back the mortgage. Millions of people who don't have a job get deep into debt because they feel "entitled" to home ownership, see their friends doing it and decide to do it too. It's called greed. That is what I call injustice and the greed that drives it deserves judgment.
Look what Amergin is doing in one of the other threads. In this one it is ReligionAnalyst. He/she is passing judgment on religious fundamentalists. Judgment? We do it all the time. Your mother does it. Your father does it. The media does it. Journalists do it. Judgment is abundant and common. Very often it has consequences. I believe there is little point complaining about the judgments of God if our own judgments of other people aren't fair.
The wrath-driven judgments of an angry God are likely to be indicative of whatever unfair judgments we made as mere mortals. Judge fairly and you will be judged fairly.
(for example: in the MK ULTRA program where they made assassins via brainwashing technologies (manchurian candidate types), who then is guilty of the crime???the assassin who is doing what they were programmed to do or the ones who did the programming??)
That bunch of gods are more like devils than righteous beings.
Adam and Eve would have been brainwashed when they were in the Garden of Eden. But God allowed them to choose freedom, to choose freethought and think for themselves. I think the God in the Garden wanted them to choose.
It is quite likely that before eating the fruit, they were more like wild animals. They were not "human" by our standards. They were more like pets in God's garden. But God made it possible for them to become more than pets, to rise above pethood to humanhood. Imagine if your pet dog decided that he was more than just a dog.
How much freedom does your dog receive from you? Would you allow your dog to wander in the streets in the city? Do you trust that your dog will be able to find his way back home? What about the farm animals that we use to make some of our food and milk? They have obviously been brainwashed to live the farm life, to allow us to use them to make food, milk and clothing.
They are not allowed the freedom to become super-farm-animals. Does your average farm animal know how to write novels?
What freedom do we bestow on these lower life forms? The more we exploit others, the more we should expect God to exploit us and I think we are responsible for most of the exploitation that happens on this planet.
