Regarding God's 'Morality': A Few More Random Thoughts

*Many True Believers don't think through the implications of their belief system. True Christian Believers believe their God will send non-believers to eternal torment in Hell (which of course God Himself created). So perhaps it is not surprising that non-believers are more than slightly upset with what True Believers believe. Wouldn't you be upset if someone who wouldn't know you from a bar of soap thinks you should - just and only just because you are a non-believer in their religion and in their God - go to Hell and be punished for all eternity. So apparently True Believers have to believe in God's 'morality', that finite 'crimes' deserve infinite punishments (i.e. - Hell). If you do not agree with God's 'morality' as stated in your holy text(s); if God's 'morality' offends you, then in order to avoid being a hypocrite, you should shop around a find a more suitable religion or just give up religion entirely. It's not as if there aren't alternatives.

*I'm a bit confused here. In the Book of Exodus, God wants the Egyptian Pharaoh to let his people go and sends Moses and Aaron along with a bunch of magic tricks to 'diplomatically' arrange for this to happen. However, God also hardens Pharaoh's heart in order to prevent the very thing that God wants from happening. Why? The only reason that makes sense is that this gives God an excuse to multiply His signs and wonders unto the Egyptian nation and thus also give reason for Him to wage atrocities upon Pharaoh and the Egyptian people. It's all just for the sake of patting His omnipotent self on the back, getting some of that fear of God PR (no publicity is bad publicity) into the great unwashed, all while waging atrocities just for the sake of waging atrocities and for no other reason. It just gives God an illegitimate excuse to strut His stuff. Presumably the last thing God actually wanted was for Pharaoh to let his people go - even after Pharaoh let His people go.

*Let's assume that God created Adam and Eve and at that time these two humans had no concept of right and wrong; of good and of evil. God then instructed them not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Now the question is, could Adam and Eve comprehend this instruction? For Adam and Eve to obey or not to obey would in itself require them to have a knowledge of good (obeying God) and evil (disobeying God) which they obviously lacked. So Adam and Eve had no real understanding of the consequences of God's instruction, a fact that an allegedly all-knowing God would already have known, thereby rendering God's command irrelevant. Nor would God's threat of death through disobedience hold any meaning for Adam and Eve since being the first humans, they never had seen a dead human. Death would have just been an abstract word and concept. In any event, Adam and Eve didn't die immediately after disobeying God, so God lies.

*If you think God is Mr. Morality personified, then please allow me to read certain adult-only Biblical stories to your young children!

For example (one of many):

1 Samuel 15: 2-3 (King James Version)

2 “Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.”

3 “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”

Now how are you going to explain to your young child why God ordered infants and babies to be slaughtered? And what was the point of killing all of the livestock? God’s insane!

*More about God's crimes? God says "do not kill"; God kills. Enough said! For elaboration I recommend you watch on YouTube DarkMatter2525's clip on "God goes on a mass murder spree". He gives 41 Biblical references to back up his claims.

*We do not, or we certainly should not get our morality from God on the grounds that He's very much a 'do as I say, not as I do' sort of dude. Any positive association between God and morality is a major oxymoronic association. I'm ready, willing and able to pass judgment on God and God's alleged 'morality', especially on grounds that God, after all, was created in the image of humans. So I'm ultimately in judgment of fellow humans, albeit humans - humans who wrote the Bible hence defined God's 'morality' - long since turned to dust and ashes.

*If you accept God’s version of morality unreservedly, then you are passing judgment upon God. If you do not accept God’s version of morality unreservedly, either in part or in its entirety, then you are also passing on God. In either case, you are using your own internally derived concepts of morality to either agree or disagree with God’s morality.

*Morality must come from some authority. We (the people) ARE that authority.