Maybe later, but first I need to win a bet
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You just described every religious person. Christians especially, waiting for the kingdom in heaven.
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You just described every religious person. Christians especially, waiting for the kingdom in heaven.
Not all of them, though sure you Yanks probably have a much larger percentage of the nutty ones who need The Patriarch to impose order and morality^tm^ on Earth due to their own inability to do morality.
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You have one horrifically vile being ruining someone's life even though the victim worships them. The victim continues to worship them in spite of their atrocities just because they're powerful.
You literally just perfectly described the entire MAGA movement.
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Anyone who asks "why don't you become a murder hobo if you don't think there's a hell?" is probably not a very functional being.
Funnily enough, this plays into a comment I made in a different thread that some people actually do behave like NPC's
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I just talk to myself. That way when I let myself down, I don't feel like I've been forsaken.
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Except that's literally what the story says that Job would pray for:
Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom. Job 1:5b, NIV
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Except he spends 20-something chapters arguing the opposite, basically saying that he wants to argue his case against God in court (which is what finally happens, beginning with the "Speech from the Whirlwind" in Chapter 32). The Book of Job has been seen as incredibly problematic -- not just from the view of "God as Cosmic Abuser," but also from the perspective of "how dare Job challenge God". The Elihu chapters (32-37) are clearly a later addition, created by some reader who was so offended by the lack of defense of God's position by Job's "friends" that he felt it necessary to add his own midrash in the middle of the book.
I personally do not believe that Job is generally interpreted the way that the original author intended; I think that a better way of understanding it is to see it as a kind of fairy tale -- one that visibly demonstrates that traditional understandings of God's righteousness ("Might defines right") are morally bankrupt. I fully acknowledge, though, that most do not see it that way.
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I just talk to myself. That way when I let myself down, I don't feel like I've been forsaken.
Hail squid god!
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Except he spends 20-something chapters arguing the opposite, basically saying that he wants to argue his case against God in court (which is what finally happens, beginning with the "Speech from the Whirlwind" in Chapter 32). The Book of Job has been seen as incredibly problematic -- not just from the view of "God as Cosmic Abuser," but also from the perspective of "how dare Job challenge God". The Elihu chapters (32-37) are clearly a later addition, created by some reader who was so offended by the lack of defense of God's position by Job's "friends" that he felt it necessary to add his own midrash in the middle of the book.
I personally do not believe that Job is generally interpreted the way that the original author intended; I think that a better way of understanding it is to see it as a kind of fairy tale -- one that visibly demonstrates that traditional understandings of God's righteousness ("Might defines right") are morally bankrupt. I fully acknowledge, though, that most do not see it that way.
see it as a kind of fairy tale
uh thats the entire book bro
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Except that's literally what the story says that Job would pray for:
Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom. Job 1:5b, NIV
His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.
Makes it seem more of a following their birthday feast custom than an everyday habit in context.
A response to feared decadence than a main goal of keeping family safe.
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Hail squid god!
Fuck I can't even get a squid god to talk to me.
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see it as a kind of fairy tale
uh thats the entire book bro
Hah, I meant the literary form, but I take your point. (I'd personally call it myth, but that's splitting hairs.)
