The vast majority of people that claim they are xtian today don’t have a fricken clue. They claim they know “god” loves them because they saw a banner at a college football game that said “John 3:16.”
Well, let me tell you something, there are a heck of a lot more Bible verses than John 3:16.
I’ve pointed out to some theists that “god” has historically hated humans and frequently condemned them to painful deaths.
For instance, as a lesson to those who have the ‘audacity’ to show physical love for the same gender, god incinerated the genitals, mouths and every other orifice involved in such sexual practices in the towns of Sodom and Gomorra (Genesis 19:24-25).
As a lesson to those who are fat and sloppy, god struck a town of gluttons with a vicious plague which made that last drumstick taste none-too-good and wiped out every living person (Numbers 11:33-34).
As a lesson to youngsters who fail to be seen and not heard, god sent a bear to maul to death a couple dozen children who had teased a bald man (2 Kings 2:23-24).
And during one particularly bad mood, God threw the lessons out the window and killed every man, woman, child and infant on the planet (except Noah’s family) with a Great Flood (Genesis 7:23).
Can’t you just feel the love?
God didn’t do all the slaughtering and mangling on his own. His chosen people, the Israelites, served as his assassins on more than one occasion. God told the Israelites to kill all the men and rape the women and children in the towns they invaded (Deuteronomy 20:13-16).
God told the Israelites to take any child who dared to disobey his parents to the town square and hurl stones at his body and head until the tot’s corpse was lifeless (Deuteronomy 21:18-21).
Boy, god sure takes no prisoners huh?
Do you know what some xtians have the audacity to say? “Jesus took all that away.”
That is utter blasphemy, my friends! The very idea that the words of the son somehow trump the words of his father is nonsensical on its face.
Do you think a father who had spent so much time talking about killing disobedient children would allow His own upstart son to tell folks to ignore everything his daddy had ever said?
I don’t think so.
If Jesus had even tried to do this, god would have yanked him back to heaven and given him a good Rod lashing.
Jesus, himself, admitted that he is subordinate to the father who rules over him (1 Corinthians 11:3).
Jesus told the apostles that he had not come to destroy the law of the prophets of old, rather, he had come to fulfill that law (Matthew 5:17).
Jesus approved of his father’s command that children who curse their parents are to be put to death (Matthew 15:3-4).
Jesus chastised the Pharisees for failing to kill those children who defied their parents’ commands (Mark 7:9-13).
Jesus told us we are to live our lives in fear of God for God has the power not only to kill us, but to torture us forever in Hell (Luke 12:5).
The smell of blood and roasted corpses was not just pleasing to god, who especially enjoyed the aroma after the Great Flood (Genesis 8:21), it was enjoyed by Jesus as well.
Jesus certainly wasn’t averse to malicious, virulent punishments to those who didn’t accept his every word as Gospel.
To name but a few, Jesus told the disciples to bring before him any man who didn’t believe in him, and to violently slaughter the non-believer while Jesus watched (Luke 19:27).
Jesus killed one man by having his body eaten by a swarm of worms because the man failed to give Jesus his due (Acts 12:23).
Jesus struck a Jew blind for thwarting his teachings (Acts 13:8-11).
He struck a man dumb for failing to listen well (Luke 1:20).
He took the lives of a husband and wife by scaring them to death for not forking over all the money they made on a real estate transaction (Acts 5:1-10).
During one particularly temperamental time when Jesus was hungry, he even killed a fig tree for failing to bear figs, even though Jesus knew figs weren’t in season (Mark 11:12-14).
Damn! This Jesus dude means business!
Recognizing that he had neither the time nor wherewithal to torture and maim all of the countless sinners of the world, Jesus ordered us to torture ourselves by chopping off any body parts that are engaged in sin lol.
So, those who practice sexual self-gratification (masturbation) are to chop off their arms.
Those who have sexual thoughts for people other than their spouses are to gouge out their eyes (Mark 9:43-47).
The wrath of Jesus is no less than the wrath of the Father. It is clear where the acorn fell.
But the clearest proof of the son’s wrath are his promises to inflict unconscionable pain and suffering on those who decline to follow his and his father’s word.
Jesus said sinners cannot enter Heaven. All sinners, most notably, those who engage in premarital sex (because marriage existed since the beginning of time) will be forever estranged from god.
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).”
And what happens to “sinners” since they cannot enter their imaginary magical place in the sky?
Welp, come “Judgment Day”, they shall be gathered together and hurled into a furnace of fire where there will be uncontrollable wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:41-42, 50).
Entire cities of people who don’t believe will suffer a fate worse than that of Sodom and Gomorra (Mark 6:11).
Jesus told us himself that god, who we already knew is subject to violent episodes lol, will take “vengeance on them that know not God” by burning them forever “in flaming fire” (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9).
The brutality and destruction will not be entirely blase, though. There will be great sparks of creativity.
Come Judgment Day, the Lord will create horse-like locusts with human heads, women’s hair, lion’s teeth and scorpion’s tails which will sting and inflict savage pain on sinners for five months (Revelation 9:7-10).
As a result of the fires, plagues and beasts He inspires, the world will be covered in unburied dead bodies, rotting everywhere, while good Christians, like our friends over at Westboro Baptist, will “rejoice over them and make merry, and shall send gifts to one another” (Revelation 11:5-10).
Sounds a trifle sadistic if you ask me…
Meanwhile, the smoke of the burning, rotting bodies will ascend and plague the Earth forever (Revelation 14:10-11).
And the smell will attract scavenger birds who will feast upon “the supper of the great God” (Revelation 19:17-18).
Jesus will use every weapon at His disposal to torture sinners. He will send an earthquake to kill 7,000 people (Revelation 11:13).
And to add just a bit more drama, He will exercise his wrath by inflicting bodily sores, turning the seas and rivers to blood, scorching everyone with fire, causing people to consume their own tongues in pain, and causing horrendous storms which will strike dead the now speechless (though sated) sinners (Revelation 16:1-21).
All of these descriptions of the rapture, theists, every last one of them, comes straight from the New Testament. And according to most christians every single word of the New Testament was inspired by Jesus, himself.
Is Jesus Mr. Lovey-Dovey-turn the other cheek-Goodie-Two-Shoes, like most theists would have you believe?
Not at all. Countless New Testament passages show Jesus was as vengeful, angry and violent as his sadistic, genocidal, father, perhaps even more so.
Of course, if you ignore these thousands of Bible passages and just focus on the one –John 3:16 you can live in a fantasy world believing you are going to heaven even though 587 other verses in your wonderful book say you’ll burn for an eternity in Hell.
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