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foo@feddit.uk 3 weeks agoWhen asked why God would do such a thing, the answer is usually “To test your faith”.
I was brought up Christian as a child, and went to church, but this answer is a prime example of what ultimately turned me away. Such behaviour didn’t fit the image of God in my mind. My version of God was pure, loving and trustworthy, and wouldn’t scatter “tests of faith” and other such trickery around my world.
Same here. Was raised by a purely Christian family, anti-abortion and anti-gay and all of that.
I may actually still be believing in their God if their answers didn’t always sound like made up fits-all generic loyalist bullshit.
Religion should be a way of better, more moral living based on principles, not a weapon to impose yourself on others and justify all oppression with “it’s God’s will”.
A lot of religious people love that way, with the philosophy/morality being the point.
…A whole lot don’t, though.
My baseline argument these days is that god does not exist, or if he does exist, he is an evil asshole that gives children bone cancer.
Why would an all-knowing god need to test anything?
A kid in my neighborhood when I was growing up would always say the Devil did it to turn you away from God, but never explained how the Devil has that sort of power in the first place.
radix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Testing your faith” sounds like tricking people into not believing. Which is exactly what they accuse their devil of doing. This god sounds like kind of an asshole.