{"id":2186,"date":"2011-04-04T07:48:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2011-04-04T07:48:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:48:05","slug":"kneel-before-your-loving-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"Kneel Before Your Loving Father!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may not know this, but I am a loving father. I have a two year-old son at home with me and like all loving parents I only want the best for my son. So over the weekend, I demanded that he kneel before me and worship me.<\/p>\n<p>I really want him to love me back, so I gave him the choice. If he kneels before me and worships me, I will give him cookies and cake for every meal forever. But if he disobeys me even in the slightest, he will be beaten continuously for every day of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I know my son very well, I was shocked that when I commanded him to go to bed, he rebelled against me. He knew the consequences and he still rebelled. But since I love him, I gave him a way to be forgiven. I could put his nine year-old cousin in harms way and allow her to be tortured and killed and then I can have my son worship her as well as me from here on out.<\/p>\n<p>If he doesn\u2019t accept my sacrifice of his cousin, I will have to go ahead and beat him. I am after all a just father and those are the rules. If I let my son get away with rebelling against me and not worshipping me and his cousin, then I wouldn\u2019t be a very just and loving father, right?<\/p>\n<p>This is of course a <strong>ridiculous scenario<\/strong> and because I actually do love my son, I would <strong>never<\/strong> beat him nor would I give him cookies and cake for every meal. I still love my son even though he doesn\u2019t like to go to bed on time and sometimes disobeys and rebels against me. He is a typical two year-old. But this situation mirrors the situation that Christianity has set up.<\/p>\n<p>This is in fact the core of the Christian religion. A so called \u201cloving\u201d God demands that we worship and obey him. He created us and can do with us as he pleases. When we don\u2019t obey him, he threatens to torture us for all eternity in Hell. Then he changes his mind out of \u201clove\u201d and puts another being in harms way (Jesus). He allows Jesus to get tortured and to die (but only for three days) and then we are told that we must accept his sacrifice and now worship him too or else the threat of eternal torture in Hell is still on because after all, God is a \u201cjust\u201d God.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how Christians define \u201clove\u201d and \u201cjustice,\u201d but I have a very different view of those virtues. This is one of the many reasons why I consider the Christian religion to be immoral and wrong. Of course, I also consider the Christian religion to be bullshit too; so there is that. 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