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I still think Tracie Harris has the best take on this:

You either have a God who sends child rapists to rape children or you have a God who simply watches it and says, “When you’re done, I’m going to punish you.” If I could stop a person from raping a child, I would. That’s the difference between me and your God.

  • Cranakis English
    3•8 months ago

    I said to my oldest child just today "There is a commandment that says you can’t say “goddamnit”, or “Jesus Christ!” but nothing, nothing about slavery. I’ll double back and mention war also tomorrow. So much suffering would have been prevented by an actual god if he’d been less narcissistic back on Mount Sinai. Seems to have wasted several on making sure his ass was the only one kissed and missed a bunch of other important stuff.

    And just for fun, the Harper Collins Study Bible footnotes on the flood story, since the article quotes it:

    The flood story is an amalgam of two texts, the J version and the P version, along with some editorial passages that harmonize the two texts…

    The Biblical flood stories are related to the older Mesopotamian flood tradition (in Atrahasis and Gilgamesh tablet 11), in which the destroyer god (Enlil) and the savior god (Enki) are two different gods in conflict. In biblical monotheism, one God combines these two impulses, and the moral conflict is transposed from the divine realm to the relationship between God and humans and the problem of human immorality.