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Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Everything seems crazy when you think a man in the sky created the world.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Redredme@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No no no, you just don’t understand it.
God moves in mysterious ways.
Just ask job.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Was he the one who was raped by his own daughters?
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I think that was Lot, former husband of world’s most humanoid salt-lick
Job basically gets royally fucked over by God due to God getting goaded into doing so by Satan.
Job is God’s most devout follower so God wants yo prove to Satan that Job will still love God even if he is reduced to misery.
So then basically God makes him poor, kills a bunch of his livestock, kills a bunch of his family, and gives him a horrendously painful plague, which ostracizes him from his whole community who only drop by to mock how pitiful and wretched he is and to gaslight him into thinking he must have sinned horribly.
Job basically goes “Why God, Why?” and God shows up and spends a chapter or two boasting about how awesome he is, and tells Job he should be thankful for what he still has.
This whole ordeal for Job lasts I think nearly a decade, ending only when Satan concedes that Job is truly faithful.
Then God restores Job’s health, some of his wealth and … either resurrects some of his family or gives him a new wife and he has more kids.
The moral of the story is apparently supposed to be that you should always have faith in God even when everything sucks, but the more obvious take away is that God is immensely petty, cruel and vain.
mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I always wondered if Satan was actually defeated by this, or if he spent the whole ordeal just thinking, “Oh, whoa, he actually took the bait. Holy shit, he’s actually doing it. This is hilarious. I can’t believe it was this easy. Unreal.”