I'm an atheist. To your points about inconsistencies in "revealed" faith, one of the primary reasons for atheism was my realization that:
(1) if the (Abrahamic) God were truly as advertised -- all-powerful, all knowing, *and* all-loving -- none of this redemption rigamarole outlined over thousands of pages, with untold numbers of godmongers arguing with each other for thousands of years, would be necessary. He/She/They/It would instead endow all people with the knowledge and temperament necessary to behave as desired, and thus live happily forever in peace.
Instead, I'm confronted with endless questions about inexplicable inconsistencies and downright stupidities (to take a tiny number off the top of my head) such as: Why in the world did God create (supposed) "free will"? I mean, He could (and still can) create *anything* He wants, right? Is He a masochist? Such that for thousands of years now He is left biting His nails with worry and sadness, yet ironically ready to *torture* scads people in the afterlife for failing his Jesus-crucifixion payback test. Why does He even need this bean-counting, a God who has everything? Is He a sadist? And don't even get me started on the shit-in-your-face-level insult of the Doubting Thomas tale, or even better, "You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" I mean, is comment even necessary here? The hucksters who wrote this were laughing in your faces, knowing what dupes most of us can be!! It simply leaves one screaming, "What is wrong with this picture? Why does this stuff even exist for supposedly sane people???" No, it's NOT that his intentions and desires are inscrutable -- he gave us (if you'll pardon the expressions) THE goddam MANUAL, for chrissakes! Etc., etc., etc. "But you can't fool all of the people, all of the time."
So.... instead,
(2) Occam's razor makes it clear to me that: The situation we find ourselves in, for thousands of years now with continually warring peoples, uses a bubble-gum & bailing-wire pasted-together Frankenstein's monstrosity of explanations, likely by dozens of (non-divine) people. That is, scripture didn't float down from heaven, perfectly organized, written by the fetal-soul of, say, Shakespeare in the The King's English (er, Aramaic), as one might expect a God worthy of the name to do. Hence, it is bound to include material that -- as you point out -- "would have a tremendous psychological distortion for any individual who 'worships' that 'God'". Nevertheless, societies need this (and can't make changes on the fly to "sacred scripture" without raising eyebrows) to keep the hoi polloi from freaking out, over the myriad modern (i.e. Agri Age onward) consequences of the much-longer-running evolution-developed general belief in the supernatural, originally to maintain mental health while their brains grew.
Tragic thing is, modern humans haven't found a superior substitute yet for supernatural beliefs, one that works for entire populations. So "revealed" religion is once again on the rise :/
The regular folks need *something*, or they'll regress (many, as I noted, with religion) ... and in any case most of us *will* rebel. That's a problem for the lazy-ass rich dudes who haven't come up with something yet...
So I'm afraid they're instead counting on (a) smothering most of us into compliance using sufficient A.I. (A.G.I. is not at all necessary), (b1) killing the uncooperative useless eaters with [nano]robots, diseases, etc. etc., and (b2) hiding in their bunkers until the smoke/fallout/etc. clears.
I wonder how “smart” these planner really are because unless they have some anti-aging contraptions in those bunkers, or maybe simulation pods they can lie in for thousands of years, the nuclear fall-out they are playing with will have centuries to clear itself, and then, even more centuries before the earth to regenerate itself. But perhaps they have that covered. Deep inside their underground bunkers are space ships that will rocket propel their arses to other planets, perhaps with Elon on their way to mars? I wonder if they will take a few undocumented workers with them, for surely they are not at all able to take care of themselves.
I think it's more likely they intend to kill vast numbers of us, and it may include wars (WW III) with threats of nukes etc. But they will, in the end, not use environmental poisons to do so (no atmospheric sprays, bio weapons, nukes, etc.), so as to preserve a relatively healthy earth. Hence, the COVID protocol test-run was done to attempt the forcing of universal invasive access to everyone's body.
Good points, but the wars they engage in are doing massive damage to the eco-system of this planet.
I think they are also doing the slow fizzle on humanity as well. The Jab will have long term effects but so does every one of the 70+ jabs they are giving to children here in the USA.
Then we have the air, water, and food.
A relatively healthy earth is probably inside the bunkers. Green houses filled with organic food, animals not shot up with hormones and vaccines and maybe their own artificial sun. Throw in a little AI robots for good measure and they are comfortable for a good while. Besides, I’ve seen it in the movies, LOL.
I'm an atheist. To your points about inconsistencies in "revealed" faith, one of the primary reasons for atheism was my realization that:
(1) if the (Abrahamic) God were truly as advertised -- all-powerful, all knowing, *and* all-loving -- none of this redemption rigamarole outlined over thousands of pages, with untold numbers of godmongers arguing with each other for thousands of years, would be necessary. He/She/They/It would instead endow all people with the knowledge and temperament necessary to behave as desired, and thus live happily forever in peace.
Instead, I'm confronted with endless questions about inexplicable inconsistencies and downright stupidities (to take a tiny number off the top of my head) such as: Why in the world did God create (supposed) "free will"? I mean, He could (and still can) create *anything* He wants, right? Is He a masochist? Such that for thousands of years now He is left biting His nails with worry and sadness, yet ironically ready to *torture* scads people in the afterlife for failing his Jesus-crucifixion payback test. Why does He even need this bean-counting, a God who has everything? Is He a sadist? And don't even get me started on the shit-in-your-face-level insult of the Doubting Thomas tale, or even better, "You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" I mean, is comment even necessary here? The hucksters who wrote this were laughing in your faces, knowing what dupes most of us can be!! It simply leaves one screaming, "What is wrong with this picture? Why does this stuff even exist for supposedly sane people???" No, it's NOT that his intentions and desires are inscrutable -- he gave us (if you'll pardon the expressions) THE goddam MANUAL, for chrissakes! Etc., etc., etc. "But you can't fool all of the people, all of the time."
So.... instead,
(2) Occam's razor makes it clear to me that: The situation we find ourselves in, for thousands of years now with continually warring peoples, uses a bubble-gum & bailing-wire pasted-together Frankenstein's monstrosity of explanations, likely by dozens of (non-divine) people. That is, scripture didn't float down from heaven, perfectly organized, written by the fetal-soul of, say, Shakespeare in the The King's English (er, Aramaic), as one might expect a God worthy of the name to do. Hence, it is bound to include material that -- as you point out -- "would have a tremendous psychological distortion for any individual who 'worships' that 'God'". Nevertheless, societies need this (and can't make changes on the fly to "sacred scripture" without raising eyebrows) to keep the hoi polloi from freaking out, over the myriad modern (i.e. Agri Age onward) consequences of the much-longer-running evolution-developed general belief in the supernatural, originally to maintain mental health while their brains grew.
Tragic thing is, modern humans haven't found a superior substitute yet for supernatural beliefs, one that works for entire populations. So "revealed" religion is once again on the rise :/
Hi Anti-Hip
NATURE is the being you’re looking for.
i'm pretty convinced the hoi polloi doesn't need it at all, but it's pretty useful for those rich dudes.
The regular folks need *something*, or they'll regress (many, as I noted, with religion) ... and in any case most of us *will* rebel. That's a problem for the lazy-ass rich dudes who haven't come up with something yet...
So I'm afraid they're instead counting on (a) smothering most of us into compliance using sufficient A.I. (A.G.I. is not at all necessary), (b1) killing the uncooperative useless eaters with [nano]robots, diseases, etc. etc., and (b2) hiding in their bunkers until the smoke/fallout/etc. clears.
I wonder how “smart” these planner really are because unless they have some anti-aging contraptions in those bunkers, or maybe simulation pods they can lie in for thousands of years, the nuclear fall-out they are playing with will have centuries to clear itself, and then, even more centuries before the earth to regenerate itself. But perhaps they have that covered. Deep inside their underground bunkers are space ships that will rocket propel their arses to other planets, perhaps with Elon on their way to mars? I wonder if they will take a few undocumented workers with them, for surely they are not at all able to take care of themselves.
I think it's more likely they intend to kill vast numbers of us, and it may include wars (WW III) with threats of nukes etc. But they will, in the end, not use environmental poisons to do so (no atmospheric sprays, bio weapons, nukes, etc.), so as to preserve a relatively healthy earth. Hence, the COVID protocol test-run was done to attempt the forcing of universal invasive access to everyone's body.
Good points, but the wars they engage in are doing massive damage to the eco-system of this planet.
I think they are also doing the slow fizzle on humanity as well. The Jab will have long term effects but so does every one of the 70+ jabs they are giving to children here in the USA.
Then we have the air, water, and food.
A relatively healthy earth is probably inside the bunkers. Green houses filled with organic food, animals not shot up with hormones and vaccines and maybe their own artificial sun. Throw in a little AI robots for good measure and they are comfortable for a good while. Besides, I’ve seen it in the movies, LOL.