“I often wonder how people develop such negative concepts of God and maintain such hostile attitudes toward a deity.”
He uses the threat of eternal suffering to coerce love. What sort of psychopath sees that and nods, ‘Yep. That’s justice.’
“Regardless of the "hoop" one must jump through, one must either jump or face the wrath of the deity.”
I can’t force myself to see this as a good thing. So if there is a god, i’ll meet him honestly. ’Shit’s fucked up, dude.’
“Shaking the fist and calling the hoop unfair really doesn't change the situation.”
No, it really won’t, not the way that skybeast is described. I STILL have to say it goes against my moral code to punish someone eternally for finite crimes.
“If God said, "You must sodomize three animals before you die" in order to get to heaven, then you had better get humping.”
I don’t want to go to a heaven where no one will look each other in the eye, because we all KNOW how you got there.
“ Obviously, that's not the case,”
But the only thing stopping it from BEING the case is God’s whimsy.
“but I wonder if everyone would complain as much?”
Holy fuck, yes! The only way into heaven is nonconsensual sex with animals? Who wants ‘heaven’ that badly?
