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Hope yall find a better situation soon.

You can't fix stupid, so I stopped arguing with you. People who think doing bad shit is excused by debatable context are beyond reason.

The Bible sells a God who is supposedly all loving, all knowing, and perfectly just, then immediately undercuts that claim by depicting him committing or ordering genocide, killing children, hardening people’s hearts so he can punish them, regretting his own actions, and changing his mind like an insecure ruler with impulse control problems. It bans killing but makes endless exceptions when God wants blood, preaches free will while predestining outcomes, demands faith without evidence while repeatedly proving he could provide evidence at any time, and promises answered prayers that conveniently fail often enough to be rebranded as “mystery.” It condemns pride but demands total submission, claims moral absolutes while endorsing slavery, misogyny, and collective punishment, and insists finite human mistakes justify infinite punishment. Forgiveness supposedly requires blood sacrifice, culminating in God sacrificing himself to himself to fix rules he made, all while blaming humanity for a flaw they inherited before they could even understand right and wrong. The result is not divine consistency but a patchwork of control, fear, and post hoc justification that only works if you stop asking basic questions.

Which TV shows are your favorite? Will should have gone for the neck instead of the leg. Show over.

There's probably a good reason for that.

You consistently have the least intelligent things to say. Refer to my earlier post.

Just remember to always vote for the lesser of two evils - less damage/less evil, is still better than more.

not to mention the constant incest --- Adam and Eve had offspring... THEN WHAT? Noah's arc had only a few families on it... THEN WHAT? We're talking about repopulating the Earth... so where did all the Earth's races come from? The Bible is so stupid and clearly made up by a bunch of people stuck in the desert jotting down whatever comes to mind. The numerous activities recorded in the book literally do not exist during the same time period most anywhere else --- it's all documented bullshit - that's why when people say "I'm christian" --- I'm like "Only because you have never actually thought about the shit show the bible your religion is based on, actually is" Then we have the "I believe in God" --- why? Why would anyone be so dense as to believe in the Christian God? How is "god" more valid than Ra? Or Thor? You are worshiping Marvel Superheroes - who by the way, also aren't real. People often then, somehow... not sure how intelligent people do this, but they do ---- resort to "I have faith" --- really? I have faith that your god is actually a three headed penguin in a Satan costume --- what makes your faith any more valid than mine? Nothing? Great, so your faith is worthless.

WITCH!!!! HE'S A WITCH!!!!

What are you? Democrat? Republican? Independent? Why? I prefer to identify as nothing - as the system is not agreeable overall --- but if I had to throw my hat in the ring, it would be on the side of women deciding what to do with their own bodies - and on the side that favors the needs of the many over the needs of the few.

What you are doing is trying to excuse the text instead of honestly dealing with what it actually says. The violent passages in Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Samuel and others are not simply people acting badly while God “tolerates” it. The text repeatedly says God commands, approves, or rewards it. With the Amalekites specifically, the command is explicit: wipe out men, women, children, even animals. You cannot turn that into “human sinfulness God merely tolerated” without rewriting the story into something it never claimed to be. If the only way to defend a book is to constantly reinterpret plain statements so they mean the opposite of what they say, that is not serious reading. That is protecting a conclusion you already decided to keep. Appealing to “faith” does not fix the problem either. If something is morally indefensible when any other religion or government does it, calling it “God’s plan” does not magically make it good. If a modern group said their deity told them to destroy entire populations, no one would say, “read it in totality and it makes sense.” We would call it wrong, full stop. And comparing it to fantasy like Lord of the Rings actually proves the point. We all understand Tolkien is myth. Once you strip away the automatic assumption that the Bible must be special, you see that it reads like a mix of tribal history, politics, and mythology shaped by the people who wrote it. That explains the violence far better than trying to force it into a perfect moral system. If a belief requires constant excuses, endless reinterpretation, and lowering the moral bar to defend it, the problem is not with the critics. The problem is with the belief itself. The Hebrew and Christian scriptures repeatedly depict God commanding or sanctioning things that, by any modern moral standard, are catastrophic: extermination of entire peoples, including infants; collective punishment for the actions of a few; endorsement and regulation of slavery; laws treating women and daughters as property; forced marriages to captors; lethal penalties for religious doubt, blasphemy, sorcery, same-sex behavior, working on the Sabbath, or violating ritual purity. At the same time, many of the heroes presented as “chosen” or blessed are involved in deception, rape, genocide, betrayal, and political violence, yet still receive divine favor. When God condemns these things in outsiders but permits or excuses them among insiders, it creates an unavoidable double standard. Layered on top of that are the deep internal contradictions. God is described as unchanging, yet his rules and moral expectations shift across books. He forbids killing, then orders massacres. He values justice, yet institutes systems that privilege one ethnicity and one priestly class above all others. Narratives disagree about events, laws are repeated with conflicting details, genealogies and timelines collide, and prophecies are reinterpreted after the fact to make them “fit.” When taken together, the picture is not a coherent, consistent moral revelation. It reads like a patchwork of competing voices, political needs, and cultural norms, stitched together over centuries and repeatedly justified as divine. The more you read the bible, the more you realize God is just a bi-polar teenager.

The Bible stories are not about the same god, they are not from the same sources, they're directly influenced by the opinions of the individual writers and they reflect both "love all" and "kill all" mentalities that constantly conflict with one another. Basically it's a book full of nonsense... just wondering if you follow it, have ever read it etc - if you are part of a religion that supports the Bible - serious question: What are you smoking? I suggest Harry Potter, it's far more consistent, humane, and entertaining. It doesn't tell you to murder your own kin just because they rebel against you like the Bible does.

That's how you're supposed to take it - but the master story writers/directors aka. know-it-alls online seem to think it was awful.

Did you watch? How did you feel about it? You love the show overall? Hate it?

It's kind of funny we think we're so different from AI, because really... how we describe sociopaths (emotional numbness) and sensory disabled people (they can't feel anything), and how we describe AI, is basically the same thing --- "They're just imitating human emotional and physical pain" --- so are those people,with those disabilities, no longer human? We're programmed to feel, we're programmed to think our feelings are real... why can a robot not be programmed the same...