This is a really insightful and disturbing article.
Sobering thought: What are we supposed to do about 60 MILLION fucking people in this country who genuinely believe that Jesus is coming back any day to reign as an absolute monarch and punish the non-believers for their lack of faith and that this is a GOOD THING? No wonder democracy itself is crumbling. How are you supposed to have a functional democratic alliance with people who are praying every day for their literal god king to come reign over the earth and who eat up the bullshit of ANY and EVERY conman and grifter who feeds into that?
I rather tend to hold lesser creatures to lesser standards. Presumably a greater creature would have greater potential for understanding what leads to human flourishing, and the greatest would know exactly what would make humans good and kind and raping children aint it. god wants children raped (and every other evil ever committed and still in the works, whether among good or not) if he exists so be glad there’s no good reason to think he does. Sorry, you just don’t get to be all knowing, all powerful, all loving, and also allow child rape. It doesn’t work, the properties are mutually incompatible with the observed state of reality, and it’s not our fault the bronze age mythos-makers didn’t consider the logical implications of the fantasy when it was being fabricated to control the rabble.