I had allot of time to think while unplugged for several days. I got to thinking about what was really at the center of my former belief, my former religion, christianity. The conclusion that I came to was a revelation to me. The extreme simplicity of it all left me contemplating it over and over. Surely it was more than this. Surely it was more complex in its core meaning. The finality of what I thought of was this. No, its not. It is very simple.
The essence of christianity is this. You worship a tribal god that requires human and animal blood sacrifice to appease him. Period. Now, I'll expound on that opinion.
The essence of christianity can be made very simple. But its more fun to draw it out. See, in the beginning, god specifically said that he is jealous, and like wise by his actions upon that jealousy, petty and insolent. He has no problem killing anyone for nearly any reason. And then killing all their family and friends and anyone who stood next to them. The christian/jewish god is a jealous petty god. But he is just a tribal god. The bible talks clearly about there being other gods, or else he would have nothing to be jealous about. It goes through great lengths to make sure his tribal followers make him the top god, not the only god, just the top god. Notice the command "thou shalt have no other gods before me". See, you could have other gods, just make him the top god. So god is a petty jealous god, wanting to be king of the gods. Got it. That is fairly typical of tribal gods.
My second claim is that he craves animal blood to satisfy him. Yes, he is a god of animal sacrifice. There are strict laws in the old testament on how to sacorifice many different animals for different things. This all powerful tribal petty jealous god not only is not powerful enough at this point to forgive sins, but he requires others living creatures to die for those perceived wrongs that he makes up in his jealous state of mind. So he REQUIRES animals to die to get over himself. Any all powerful god could forgive or just make people ask to be forgiven. The only reason animal sacrifice was required, was because he made it so. His own living creatures mean nothing. His own creation nothing better than fodder to satisfy his petty jealously and anger. The slaughter of innocent animals to appease the tribal god.
But in the New Testament and the advent of christianity, this petty, jealous, tribal, animal sacrificing god takes it up a notch. While he has shown the propensity for this type of sadistic cruelty in the past, it has never reached this heights more than the one time it is recorded in Judges 11:1-11, 29-33. Jephthah promises to sacrifice what ever comes out of his house if god lets him win a battle. Of course, ole J slaughters the enemy (gods hallmark) and his daughter comes out of his house. So he sacrifices his daughter and god accepts it as good. But that was just a prelude to insanity.
The christian god steps up the insanity by REQUIRING a HUMAN sacrifice to not burn you in hell for ever. Take that in for a minute, think about it, the christian god is a god of human sacrifice. An all powerful god could surely simply forgive sins, just ask right? Nope. He wants blood. Innocent blood at that. Not just anyone. Someone who doesn't deserve it needs to die a torturous death. The tribal blood god steps it up a notch and requires human sacrifice, Jesus. Now sure, christians believe he is god, but who cares right? We are talking about the requirement of blood, human blood, just to be forgiven of what? Some perceived sin? No, you are BORN sinful by nature. Your very birth requires human sacrifice to avoid hell. What a nice blood god he turned out to be.
For the very crime of being born with a sinful nature, the christian god REQUIRES a HUMAN sacrifice. This is tribal to the extreme, not at all what a loving caring god would be like. After all, wouldn't he just make it easier to get to heaven, just ask for forgiveness and you get it? But no, he MADE the requirement of blood. Didn't have to, but chose to make blood necessary. A petty, jealous, tribal blood god, that is ultimately powerless. So powerless and so sadistic, that he has to require humans and animals to bleed for his pleasure. That is the essence of the christian god. If you are a christian, the essence of your faith is that you worship a sadistic tribal blood god obssessed with making his creatures bleed and die for his pleasure. This is the god you serve. One that isn't powerful enough to just forgive your sins, or one that just likes to see people bleed. Sick.
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Wow...that was powerful and very well organized. I liked reading that. I gave up Christianity in 1995. I think I can see why with your blog here. The people who are Christians are the most war mongering people around. THEY want to emulate their god. They want to slaughter the innocent. I think they avoid feeling guilty with words like "terrorists" and "collateral damage".
Very good. Thanks for writing that out here.
Very interesting article! I just want to comment about the "jealous God". There are other writings found that weren't included in the "Christian" Bible, they were written by the apostles, kinda like an interview with Jesus Christ. And Jesus Himself is claiming that this jealous God is not just jealous but ignorant too. He claim that we were created out of ignorance by an ignorant God, but that there is a light within us that came from the God of light, the unmoved mover. The salvation he was talking about is not from hell but from our own ignorance. These can all be found in the Nag Hammadi Library in the book of the "Apocryphon of John" that wasn't included in the Bible.
Although a lot of what is written in the Bible seem ridiculous and should be dismissed, One must take into account that they are merely just a historical observation of a primitive civilization. It's like looking through their eyes about what occurred in those times.
Take an account for example Ezekiel, it seems to me that what he had encountered was actually an alien being in a spaceship, but how can a primitive man explain or describe it? He said that the being is inside this thing that have wheels, and that where ever the being goes, the wheels turn that way, he said that it is shining like fire. How can Esekiel describe a light bulb or a motor vehicle when he has never seen one before? He thought is was a miracle!
If you try to read the Bible again without the notion of God, and consider it as merely an observation of a primitive civilization, you will discover a lot of things!
I really like your article about this jealous and blood thirsty God, I have been wanting to write something like this but I am not a good writer...:-)
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