• bizarroland
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    253 months ago

    It’s a crossover between Judaism and Irish fairy folklore. God can do everything except he can’t touch iron because it burns him.

    They just try to downplay that because knowing God’s weakness kind of pokes a hole in that whole omnipotence thing.

  • @CM400
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    173 months ago

    I mean, to play devil’s advocate, God being with Judah could have just been a colloquial way of saying they were successful, not necessarily that God couldn’t defeat an army with tricked-out wheels.

    • @TallonMetroid
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      203 months ago

      What’s the point in being the chosen people of a god if the god can’t even be bothered to help you conquer some heathens?

      • @[email protected]
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        23 months ago

        Apparently, getting to genocide the direct descendants of your God’s all-human all-God all-Spirit Earthly manifestation 2500 years later

  • @NegativeInf
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    143 months ago

    A god of convenience and coincidence.

  • @[email protected]
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    73 months ago

    Our god gave us the hills nobody lived and can’t farm.

    That rich farmland must have already been claimed by a different god.

  • @[email protected]
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    33 months ago

    Terrible writing. “They” presumably refers to two different groups within the same sentence.

    • @[email protected]
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      73 months ago

      That’s perfectly fine with a complex sentence that clearly refers to a separate group before the second usage.

      It also wasn’t originally written in English.