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?
So you’re saying that god is no smarter than my old dog who once ate a diaper. Then not very smart at all.
Let’s look at it another way. If I own a dog and it’s getting beat up by another dog, should I stop it? Or if my dog is humping a cat who is obviously not enjoying it, should I stop it? I’m the more powerful being here, with better tools and knowledge of good and evil.
I judge an animal’s behavior by the person who cares for it. If a god claims to watch over and care for humanity, I judge it based on humanity’s actions. If your dog is at the dog park eating smaller dogs, you’re a bad (ineffective, inattentive, or lazy) dog owner, or the dog doesn’t have an owner. If people are raping children and a god claims to be over people, then he’s either too impotent to stop it, too lazy to stop it, doesn’t care enough to stop it, or doesn’t exist. I guess the alternative is “God thinks raping children is fine” if you prefer that.
So now the argument has become “God is like a dog that eats diapers and shits on the floor.” This guy is sounding better and better all the time.