Tag: Sadism

Few propositions are quite so coercive as those threatening eternal torture as the price of disbelief.

According to Christianity. People like me who strive to leave the world better than we found it, who genuinely work to help others and who take the principle of ‘do no harm’ seriously will burn for all eternity.

And what’s our crime? What terrible abomination have we committed to deserve such a sadistic end?

We thought about the things we were told and we remained true to our honest conclusions.

It’s hard for mere mortals such as myself to fathom the depravity of a mind that thinks such a state of affairs would ever be, could ever be appropriate. And yet this, apparently is precisely the system created by the vicious God of Abraham… that psychopathic, egocentric sadist who seems to get off on the misery and suffering of others.

One way to discern the character of a human being is to see how they treat those who aren’t able to stand up for themselves – waiters and waitresses, shop assistants and other serving staff whose livelihoods depend upon treating the customer, even the abusive customer nicely. Those people who treat such workers badly are rightly judged to be arrogant, hateful and even bullying by the rest of us.

What then should we think of a torturer God? Ah yes, I forgot…

The ways of God are strange.