Satan has not killed anyone though. Satan was the rebel who got tired of serving under a toxic boss. Hail Satan 😈!!
I recommend Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France. One of the greatest ‘Romantic Satanist’ pieces out there, and written by a communist no less!
It’s on my ereader for after I finish ‘the crying of lot 49.’
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Listen, someone here has to represent the hatred and greed of the megachurches. Reminder to tithe so that Kenneth Copeland can outfit his 18000 square ft tax free estate. For Jesus, of course.
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Jesus truly granted me my fancy private jet of course.
It allows me to fly closer to his kingdom so that I alone can bring you the word of God. He informed me to start accepting bitcoin.
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That’s our Lemmy lib. They downvote everything they see from our instance. lol
Of course the actual figures for God must be expected to be much higher, since the source is known to be biased in His favour
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It’s unavoidable, after all religions have to deal with and interpret suffering and impermanence, and time kills everything we love… but the old testament just went hardcore with that angle, didn’t even try to sugarcoat it. God is a complete sadist asshole and will wreck your shit, on a whim. Because he can, and there’s nothing you can do to stop him. So submit peasant.
Yeah, Jesus had some decent stuff to say it’s hard to believe he was the same entity as the cruel “god” he’s claimed to be. How can an all seeing and all powerful being give people the power and essentially make them “sin” then commit world genocide with “sinners” as an alibi be interpreted as anything but unnecessary cruelty and sadism for the sake of scaring people into loyalty.
As someone who grew up with abusive parents it is eerie how much their behaviour is mirrored in the bible. Weird double binds, demanding worship because he created humanity, violent temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way (despite being “all powerful” apparently) Insecure, jealous and petty. If god were a person, he would be an abusive asshole who causes nothing but pain and suffering in the lives of others.
There was also that one part when the guy slaughtered his son as a secrefice and that one time where a bunch of people called Elisha bald guy and then got fucking ratioed
What about the Great Flood? That must’ve killed hundreds of millions.
Literal reading of Bible puts Great Flood at 2348 BCE, total population of Earth at this time is roughly estimated to be between 20 to 40 million.
Not as much as atheists like evil zedong!
Well, that’s still quite the body count.
God’s k/d ratio through the years has been insane
However since unlike god, Satan didn’t die (from what we know), Satan has a k/d ratio of infinity. Another W for big S
I read somewhere that at a 1.5% per year average population growth, by the time of the flood happens in the story there would be like over half a billion people alive. I haven’t checked the math or the facts.
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Satan killed people?
In a bet with god over if Job is only following god because his life is great. Satan asks for god’s permission, then kills Job’s family.
So really it was gods fault
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I love the way you refer to the war for heaven lol. “That angel civil war”.
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Nah it’s ok. I was raised Southern Baptist so I was taught some really fucked up shit.
For instance, the story of Ham. Ham was Noah’s only dark-skinned child. He beheld his father Noah naked, thusly condemning black folk to an eternity of divine punishment and slavery.
I am not joking.
Otherwise, a lot of the popular ideas surrounding heaven and hell are noncanonical anyway. The devil (or “the adversary”) is not described as having horns or cloven feet, there are no “circles of hell” (that comes from Dante), etc. etc. I prefer a more epic story for sure, and were I a Christian I’d probably be more attracted to Christian mysticism and integration of non-canon scripture into my beliefs anyway, like the Book of Judas.
The war in heaven is most incredibly described, as I’ve recommended elsewhere in this thread, in Anatole France’s Revolt of the Angels. Lucifer is shown not to be a villain, but a revolutionary who kicks it with Russian anarchists and nihilists. He wants to introduce science to heaven, as he had introduced humans to science millennium prior.
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Better than John Wick.
Wow was God camping?
It’s a legitimate strategy!
He was spawn camping during war in heaven
Retirement going great, just chilling out, taking vacations, having fun with the grandkids…
God teleports behind you
Hail Satan!
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