• @FreakinSteve
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    269 months ago

    Never heard of Satan causing any of those things. That’s god’s territory.

    • Flax
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      9 months ago

      If going by Christian theology, literally every atrocity in human history was caused by Satan. Even if fictional, there’s literally no redeeming qualities of Satan

      • @kofe
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        189 months ago

        Interesting, so who created the fruit of knowledge? Who then decided that we would die and feel pain? Who flooded the earth? Who took up a bet to torture job? And that’s barely scraping the old testament

        Meanwhile, who offered food and water to a starving madman in the desert?

        • Flax
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          -129 months ago

          We decided we’d die and feel pain. We deserved the flood, and it was literally satan who tortured Job. satan didn’t even offer Jesus food, he just told Him to turn the rocks into food with His own power.

          • @TheBeege
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            129 months ago

            You missed a very, very important keyword there: “deserved.”

            Theologians miss a key point of rational debate where they don’t provide proper definitions and make big assumptions that aren’t great.

            Who defines what the “correct” effect of an action is? Who defines what consequence is deserved by a choice? If God is the almighty being, he decides what is right and wrong. In Abrahamic tradition, God defines all of these arbitrary rules and expects humanity to obey them without question. Shit, God ordered Abraham himself to murder despite that supposedly being against the rules.

            God is like a kid that holds a magnifying glass focused on an arbitrary point near the anthill. He set up the conditions for us to hurt ourselves according to his arbitrary rules. Why didn’t he tell Satan to fuck off with the fruit? Why did he allow Satan to exist in the first place? If God created everything, then he is responsible for everything by our human logic. So God can fuck right off

            • Flax
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              -49 months ago

              Would you rather have free will or be a mindless slave to God?

              • @GojuRyu
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                79 months ago

                So god cannot create a world with free will and without evil?

                • Flax
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                  -19 months ago

                  It won’t be true free will, in that case, would it?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    49 months ago

                    So god isnt all powerful is he? If he is omnipotent js change how reality works so that it can be true free will as well no bad in the world if hes omnipotent it should be easy for him

                  • @GojuRyu
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                    29 months ago

                    I thought it was common to believe that you had free will in paradise yet there be no evil. Which one is it you believe to be in paradise, free will or evil?

          • @kofe
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            99 months ago

            Huh. I don’t recall being asked if I want to die

            • Flax
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              -69 months ago

              Do you want to follow Jesus who will give you eternal life?

                • Flax
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                  -69 months ago

                  They complained they were never asked, lol, so I asked them

                  • @[email protected]
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                    89 months ago

                    Follow Jebus if you don’t want to die - is just extortion. Than again - old testament god was a bad boy himself, he would definitely approve, I mean he was really into murder.

              • @kofe
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                29 months ago

                Oh no I didn’t mean I haven’t been asked by mortals. Are you claiming to be God?

                • Flax
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                  -19 months ago

                  Why does the distinction matter? I can still help show you to freedom if you’d like.

                  • @kofe
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                    29 months ago

                    I promise you don’t have evidence that would sway me.

      • @RageAgainstTheRich
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        129 months ago

        “If going by Nazi ideology, literally every atrocity in human history was caused by jews or immigrants.”

        I think you have caught the stupid.

        • Flax
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          -69 months ago

          Difference is that Jews and Immigrants aren’t a character defined by Nazis. They existed before Nazism

            • Flax
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              19 months ago

              That would be a more accurate example.

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              09 months ago

              While Zoroastrianism existed before Christianity, it changed it’s beliefs overtime to follow suit. Such as their holy book, the Avesta, dating to around 500AD with the earliest copy being from the 1300s.