• RiddleMeWhy
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    3110 months ago

    Oooh look into the old testament. God is super petty. Christianity is a retcon

    • @Wogi
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      3710 months ago

      “why did you kill my family, drive away my flock, make my friends hate me, and riddle me with disease?”

      “To win a bet. Also don’t fucking talk back to me you little shit!”

      • @psud
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        510 months ago

        Job, right? (I wasn’t raised in a particularly religious home)

        • @Wogi
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          310 months ago

          Yes that’s Job, the favorite punching bag

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      This a great video by Dr Justin Sledge that explained the evolution of Yahweh from being a storm god, the devil (ba’al), a wise old zeus-like head of a pantheon, and all the fun ways people hated each other for it.