God scares me. [Spirituality & Religion]

When I hear people say that they love God, that they fear God, that God is almighty, and when I think about how people believe they are punished with eternity in Hell for disobeying God, the only appropriate words that I can find are "Abusive relationship".

God gives you rules. He punishes you with pain and suffering if you disobey him, he makes you fear him, so much so that you can't leave him. He traps you in a world where he is the ultimate authority. They way people speak of their devotion to God... it makes me so very sad. The saddest thing of all, though, is that almost all the religious people I know are beautiful, wonderful, kind people. And I think they deserve better than to worship someone who would throw them into an eternal Hell so nonchelantly.

If you believe in God, that's fine. I mean, I disagree with you and feel sorry for you, but I also defend your right to believe whatever you believe. I just wanted to explain my point of view.

Love to all. ❤

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UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

While I do agree with you on that people should be allowed to believe whatever they want to believe, there was an apt analogy of it that I've heard before which goes with the whole abusive relationship angle.

Goes something like this: "God made humans with the ability to sin, then punished them for sinning. After that he decided that he would rape a virgin and risk her marriage to give birth to his son so that his son could die a slow and torturous death to save humans from going to hell for their sin. But not all of them, just the ones willing to venerate him. The rest can still all go burn in hell."

A pretty strange logic goes into justifying that set of actions and thinking he's still a beneficent god.

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UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

Is there another way you would like to use to describe impregnating someone without their consent? And I never did imply it was anything else.

Fernie · F

@Americanisbabylon:BLIND faith is what you have.

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RoboChloe · 26-30, F

The Bible is full of things like that; for example when God hardened the heart of the Pharaoh, and then proceeded to punish him for having a hardened heart.

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@Americanisbabylon: So she was [i]chosen[/i] to be raped. Gotcha. He made sure to case the joint first. Very important step.

@RoboChloe: Oh yeah, many many many examples. I just found it to be a particularly poignant one.

MrX2017 · 51-55, M

@UndeadPrivateer: Negative

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