Hypothetically speaking, that's the kind of religion I'd trust. Garden variety leftists ask "is a homophobic/misogynist/racist god who threatens to send you to hell worth worshipping?" Obviously I'm wired in a fundamentally different way, because I ask the opposite: is a God who ISN'T mighty, uncompromising and and fearsome worth worshipping? I don't think so.
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So if someone comes over to your house with a sword, calls you a [INSERT RACIAL SLUR HERE] and threatens to kill you then you'll worship them? Good to know.
I'd find a new god, by the way. If yours ever did exist then he's clearly either long dead or powerless to act in the modern world. Unless you prefer an "all talk, no action" route (which is admittedly my assumption).
So, in other words, you're a homophobic, misogynistic racist looking for a god just like you to worship.
That's a stupid response because those characteristics are not mutually exclusive.
It also makes you look like an asshole because it amounts to saying homophobia, misogyny and racism are somehow justified.
It's sad that, from all of the truly interesting gods that history offered us, the one that won out in the west is a really boring dude/dudette with a hard-on for hating everyone slightly different and slaughtering babies. Say what you will about the Roman's practice of sacrificing bulls, but at least they had plenty of gods, and variety is the spice of the after-life, as they say.
In any case, if such a god was real, I wouldn't worship him. I'd form an army against the fucker and find a way to dethrone him. Better to die fighting than to live subservient to an unjust ruler, I'd say.
I ask the opposite: is a God who ISN'T mighty, uncompromising and and fearsome worth worshipping? I don't think so.
So you're saying "yes, a God who is homophobic/misogynist/racist is worth worshiping", but you're sugar-coating the words.
So the only reason to worship someone or something is because you fear them?
Okay then, let me tell you the story of this one scary-ass goddess named Iris Heart...
I ask the opposite: is a God who ISN'T mighty, uncompromising and and fearsome worth worshipping?
Okay, guys, when you travel back in time please make sure to check for stowaways. Now bring this poor fellow back to the Iron Age where he belongs.
@Vifibi
It's sad that, from all of the truly interesting gods that history offered us, the one that won out in the west is a really boring dude/dudette with a hard-on for hating everyone slightly different and slaughtering babies. Say what you will about the Roman's practice of sacrificing bulls, but at least they had plenty of gods, and variety is the spice of the after-life, as they say.
It wouldn't be much different from what we have now except instead of ignoring most of the Bible the warmongers and bigots would simply follow more warmongering and bigoted gods. Though it would certainly spice up politics as we'd get news stories like: "Sen. Bob Robertson caught offering a calf to the altar of Mars after denying wanting to continue the Iraq War. He was later found having an affair with Zeus.".
If you enjoy might, inflexibility and terror, then, yeah, you've got a God who fills the bill.
I don't respect fierce, tyrannical leaders.
I only respect upstanding, equitable ones.
Considering Varg & his fellow deranged Black Metal/"Mayhem" types....What sort of upbringing must they have had to turn out that way? I mean, they all grew up in the most safe, Progressive country in the world. Were they bored? Were they left out in the freezing cold as babies? I ask the same about that Breivik guy.
"I'm a weird Norwegian guy living in a safe, stable, happy, peaceful country...I'd rather live on Planet Apokolips or something. *ARRRRGLE*!"
Maybe their parents were abusive....I dunno.
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