Why Blame God?

by wannabe 13 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  WTWizard

  Specifically, I blame God for setting this scam up on purpose. He distresses us on purpose, and then holds this "deliverance" and "salvation" in front of us. Of course, to benefit from it, you have to curtail all pleasurable activity (and feel guilty when you do partake), and sacrifice to a religion. I have noticed that this deliverance is always somewhere in the near future, regardless of which vantage point I select, but it never actually gets here.

  Then He blames us. The whole crap of Original Sin is nothing more than blaming mankind for His distressing us. By blaming mankind, that Almighty Lowlife Scumbag is able to hide His guilt, and still promise to deliver us "in the very near future", provided you feel guilty about all pleasure and continually sacrifice your wealth and resources to God. The whole concept of God loving anyone but His Own Fat Self is nothing more than a scam.
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  PrimateDave

  If you knew someone was going to be murdered, raped, or assaulted, and you chose not to do anything about it, just to prove some obscure moral point to your own satisfaction, would you not share a degree of blame for not taking action to prevent it, assuming it was in your power to do so?

  Based on this assumption, God is:

  1. not all knowing

  2. not moral, loving, just, or kind as he is often portrayed

  3. not all powerful

  4. not paying attention

  5. not the anthropomorphic deity found in human writings

  6. not a real entity at all
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  THE GLADIATOR

  The Caterpillar and the Gladiator looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the cigar out of its mouth, and addressed him in a languid sleepy voice.

  “Who is God? ” asked the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. The Gladiator replied, rather shyly, “I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”

  “What do you mean by that?” said the Caterpillar sternly. “Explain yourself!”

  “I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir,” said the Gladiator , “because I’m not myself, you see.”

  “Who is God? ” asked the Caterpillar again. Before we can blame him, we need to know who he is.
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  AK - Jeff

  If not God, whom do we blame?

  The snake? The innocent, untrained woman? Adam?

  This seems like a path I ran down a few weeks back with fundies by my side.

  Jeff