• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    The Old Testament doesn’t do a lot to give the idea that god is “benevolent” or “kind”

    Cruelty was kinda the schtick

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      8 months ago

      Anyone interested in this, I suggest listening to the “Data over dogma” podcast.

      The Bible is a book with multiple authors that had completely different conceptions of God and that borrowed local traditions for their own.

      For example, the belief in one god is believed by scholars to be a later change to the Bible. In that region, it would be more common for the belief to be that there’s a God of a land or nation with their power bound to that land. The world was viewed as one with a battle of the gods rather than being one with a supreme ruler.

      This is why the Bible so often disagrees with itself. Because each author had their own motives and were sometimes responding to each other in their writings.

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        8 months ago

        The extended universe is far too large and contradictory. Really we need Disney to just come in and buyout the whole Abraham franchise and just reset everything back down to a few core stories. And maybe forget about the Christmas special.