Wotak writes:
So I ask you: How can God not be considered one of the evilest beings ever known to the human race?
I see it like this: (taken from an earlier similar topic at EvC}
Are the words attributed to God in the Bible actually Gods words? If not, could it be the human authors of the Bible who are attempting to use God to justify the plot twists in their stories?
What is a working definition of evil? I would define evil as doing anything outside of the will of God, as we understand Him.
Lets examine some of the O.T. and put it into a modern context.
What if some ancient historian were teleported to the current century. Furiously chiseling his observations on a stone tablet, perhaps our ancient reporter would record something such as this:
And it came to pass that on the eleventh day of the ninth month, the holy martyrs from the kingdom of Egypt captured several of the Great Winged Chariots and rode them through the air and they crashed into the Giant Twin Towers of the Amerikites.
And God spoke to King Bush The Lesser and commanded him to go forth and find the great leader of the Egyptian Martyrs from the kingdom of Arabia.
And it came to pass that a mighty Army was gathered and sailed forth from the shores of America and the Amerikites were of one mind and heart, for they feared for the safety of their kingdom.
And Bin Laden, who was the leader of the Martyrs, had journeyed to the land of the Afghan Kingdoms. The people saw his stature and they understood the wrath that the Amerikites had for him, and thus they hid him in the caves of Tora Bora and when the Amerikites rained brimstone down upon him as God had commanded them to do, the Martyrs escaped by night into the land of Pakistan. And Bin Laden was of great height he stood a full 7 cubits high!
Wherever he went, the people hid him, for they knew that he had stirred up the false gods of the Amerikites and that the Amerikites worshiped created things.
But King Bush was convinced that he heard from the true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He told his advisers that it was the people of the moon god that were the true idolaters, for surely they wanted to crush the blessings that Jehovah had bestowed upon the Amerikites.
Meanwhile, the King of Babylon, whose name was Saddam, helped the martyrs and the noble cause of Bin Laden, for he hated the Amerikites and the famines that they had caused his people. He feared no gods except his own advisers, and he purged the men who got too close to his throne.
My point is this: GOD, if God exists, was not actually the one doing the killing. The people can blame God all they want and claim He ordered them to kill. Dubya Bush claimed that God told him to attack Iraq. Shall we blame God or Dubya??
Edited by Phat, : fixed
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