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Originally Posted by A Thousand Threads
Jehovah, who of all the good gods adored by men was certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty
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I've studied plenty of theistic religions, and they are virtually all violent. The gods of the Enuma Elish are brutal. Most of the gods of Greek mythology are careless and view mankind as a game. Judeo-Christianity/Islam is severely harsh. South American religions were full of mass human sacrifice. Jehovah is actually the only deity that guarantees an afterlife - a sort of redemption. The Bible doesn't view Satan as an eternal rebel, he's just the manifestation of free will. According to the Bible, man was made to worship Jehovah. In order to do it properly they had to choose to. To choose, they needed an alternative. Adam and Eve chose the "wrong path". Then Christianity branched out and claimed that Jesus was a second chance, where each man can make up for the choice individually through a single choice. Jehovah is hardly hostile in light of what was really supposed to be conveyed. The only problem is providing evidence that this, or any other religion, could possibly be real.