Allow me to first state that I am a pretty agnostic fellow. I don't hold a strong belief that there is or isn't a God. I do however believe that if there is a God, he is one very evil being. I base this belief on the Bible itself. I have no strong belief one way or the other that this book is indeed the word of God, or that it isn't. For the sake of this discussion, I will assume that it is and that the overwhelming majority of Christians believe that it is. With that being pretty much an undisputed fact, let's examine the words and work of what I believe to be (if he exists) the most evil being/entity/god that humanity has ever known.
*GE 6:11-17, 7:11-24 God believes that man has gone wicked and decides to do something about it. He kills every living thing on the face of the earth. Only Noah's family and two of each animal are spared.
Ok, if this is true, then God is, by FAR, the biggest mass murderer known to man. Just thinking of all those poor infants and children who were drowned in this story makes me feel a little ill. How could any being drown little children and infants and consider that a good thing to do?
*EX 9:22-25 A plague of hail from the Lord strikes down everything in the fields of Egypt both man and beast except in Goshen where the Israelites reside.
Again, more mass murder. It's almost as if this being treats humans with the same regard that humans treat cockroaches. How can this being be considered loving and perfect while committing such atrocities? Who in their right mind would worship or praise such a being except to go through the motions out of sheer terror for their own lives and the lives of their children? How could this type of behavior be considered love?
*EX 12:29 The Lord kills all the first-born in the land of Egypt.
Ok, more baby killing. What is it with this evil being and his apparent disregard for the lives of helpless infants and children?
*EX 17:13 With the Lord's approval, Joshua mows down Amalek and his people.
Now this one sounds as if it's right out of a plot from a Mob movie. God ok's the hit and Amalek and his people all get wacked by Joshua. First of all, why didn't God just do the killing himself? He's already shown that mass murder is something that he adept at, why send in a hit-man to do the job?
*EX 21:20-21 With the Lord's approval, a slave may be beaten to death with no punishment for the perpetrator as long as the slave doesn't die too quickly.
Ok, so ordering hits isn't good enough. Now this loving God is demanding that human slaves should not only be killed by their human owners but that to be done correctly in his eyes they must be slowly tortured to death. Now that's just plain evil.
*EX 32:27 "Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
Now, the human race is guilty of some atrocities of its own but this one just just confounds me. God has already proven that he can and will dispatch millions of humans on his own, quickly and easily... so why is it that he needs an army to kill everything in sight? What is he to gain by not just adding a few million more notches to his own murder belt?
*EX 32:27-29 With the Lord's approval, the Israelites slay 3000 men.
Just like that, 3000 men are rubber stamped for death and killed. Heck, the 911 terrorists killed less than that and we consider their actions evil. How could anyone in their right mind not consider this being an evil entity?
*LE 26:22 "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children."
Sheesh, now he's gone and sent in the wildlife to kill the poor, innocent children. What kind of being sends carnivore after our children? That's just plain Evil Evil.
*LE 26:29, DT 28:53, JE 19:9, EZ 5:8-10 As a punishment, the Lord will cause people to eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and fathers and friends.
Oh my goodness. Now he has us eating our own children. This takes evil to an entire new level.
*NU 15:32-36 A Sabbath breaker (who had gathered sticks for a fire) is stoned to death at the Lord's command.
Alright God, now you're just being petty. You order people to slowly bludgeon a poor dude to death with stones because he picked up a few sticks on a Sunday? Are you kidding me? The guy picked up a few sticks, he didn't have homosexual relations with a child on an alter or something. It was sticks, he picked them up for Christs sake. You're just out of control, dude.
*NU 16:27-33 The Lord causes the earth to open and swallow up the men and their households (including wives and children) because the men had been rebellious.
*NU 16:35 A fire from the Lord consumes 250 men.
*NU 16:49 A plague from the Lord kills 14,700 people.
Angry, angry guy this God is, no? I mean, did he create humans just so he would have something to kill? It sure seems that way. Dead people everywhere. How does this being even remotely get mistaken for a all good entity?
*NU 25:9 24,000 people die in a plague from the Lord.
*NU 31:31-40 32,000 virgins are taken by the Israelites as booty. Thirty-two are set aside (to be sacrificed?) as a tribute for the Lord.
Wow, another 56K dead, just like that. This God entity has turned into a Holy Terror if you ask me.
*NU 31:17-18 Moses, following the Lord's command, orders the Israelites to kill all the Midianite male children and "... every woman who has known man ...."
More dead kids and women. If that's not pure, unbridled evil - I don't know what is.
It goes on and on like this... Heck one million Ethiopians were killed. One million. Some estimate that God killed well over two million people who's deaths were documented in the Bible. Others estimate many more but for the sake of this discussion I'll use the conservative estimate. And that's just what was documented in the "good book". I'm sure there were some that didn't make the list judging by the warpath this entity was on.
I mean, this isn't a few kittens being drowned in a burlap sack evil. This is evil on a scale almost unheard of on this planet. How can there even be a question as to the pure evilness of this being?
I mean, come on, Satan was only rumored to have killed like 10 people in the Bible, and even those 10 had to be approved by God first. How is it that he got such a bad rap in the Bible? The Bible, Gods own word, tells us that you are a few hundred thousand time more likely to have your wife, children and even yourself killed by him than you are by the bad guy in the story. Wait, what? How does that make any sense to anyone?
Hitler killed between 5 and 6 million Jews. Most human beings consider him evil without debate. Am I to then surmise that had God killed 5 million humans rather than just a measly 2.5 million that he too would be considered an evil mass murderer?
So I ask you: How can God not be considered one of the evilest beings ever known to the human race?
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