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Conversely, cells that grow despite being told not to are referred to cancer, and computer programs that refuse to listen to the OS are called variations of "undead" (unless its intentional and then then it's a "virus" or "trojan" or "worm" or some such).
So fuck religion, and especially those perverts who twist it around to feed their own ends at the expense of others - even Jesus said that much, on both counts - but philosophically I wanted to point out that this is an improper comparison between a marriage, with presumption of equality, vs. a very much unequal relationship between, if we are talking Christian, a creator and their created beings, or more broadly a higher vs. lower being. e.g., who among us doesn't get mad at our household appliances & tools if they do not work precisely as we want them to, every time?
i.e. while there are some fantastic arguments against religion or more specifically Christianity, chief among them being hypocritical-as-shit fundies, this is not one of them imho.
Household appliances aren’t living beings.
A more apt comparison would be beating your pet for not listening to you. Which is evil.
The Abrahamic god is evil.
Its a fiction, so it can be whatever you like.
I tend to see people fixate on the ugly and abusive verses when they are trying to justify violence. But if I picked up a copy of "Conan the Barbarian", read the bit where he says what is best in life is "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!", and then start swinging a baseball bat at anyone nearby I don't like, it would be a wildly insincere to assert "Conan is evil because look at all the people with baseball bat injuries around me!"
Don't confuse the problems of an Evil God with the problems of Evil People who are looking for social permission.
I’m not talking about specific verses, I’m talking about the actions of the abrahamic god as depicted in the texts. The actions of the abrahamic god are consistently abusive at the least, when he’s not being full-on genocidal.
It's a fictional creature, though. If you don't like those texts, just go read the apocrypha instead. Or write your own fan fiction, like the Mormons did.
Viola, the Abrahamiv God is good again.