As is typical with religious nutters, they don't want to think things through. Religious nutters: "it's more important to follow our religious dogma beliefs than be practical or honest with ourselves."
God, our creator, is our God. "You shall have no other gods before Me." "Me" = God Your list is the "false gods" we're not supposed to have. Grew up on a farm and worked 7 days a week most of my electrical career. Many tend to not follow this commandment too strictly. Some don't have a choice and some, like myself, enjoy "working" more than playing so is it really "work" if it's what I enjoy? Agree, it's terrible what Israel is doing to Gaza. [/QUOTE] Louisiana has been creating other good laws recently. This country would be better if more states had their leadership.
Unfortunately, the bible's description of God is so flawed that I can't accept it. I can't accept the bible as an accurate or truthful document. Further, trusting something "out there" is perhaps natural in humans but I don't wish to accept the jewish version. I don't wish to accept anyone's version. I don't wish to accept even my own version.
The Jews created a fictional god. That's ok, anyone can create fiction. The problem is, the Jews masterfully convinced the whole world their fiction was truth. When the crowd go along blindly following a story, the crowd is usually wrong. Themickey: "The peace loving godly jews are anything but peace loving or godly." Christians: "Oh yes they are, the problem is the devil". Themickey: "Oh, the devil is more powerful?"
There's a war going on in Gaza declared by Israel, supported by America. The Jewish / Christian religions..... "If you don't believe our beliefs you are an outsider, a sinner. Sinners get what they deserve, damnation and death. No sympathies. Cut and dried, black and white, either for us or against us." No wonder with the predominance of religion in society you get never ending wars. "Our God is a god of punishment". Our God is also a God of love. But we need contradictions in our doctrine so we always have an excuse, a cop out, a scape goat, a way to wiggle out of any queries we can't or don't wish to answer.
God hates sin! Ok, so God does have hate in his nature. What is sin? Anything I (God) don't agree with. Conclusion: I'm justified to hate anything I don't agree with. When I hate something I can destroy it. Humans: I'm justified in killing you if I hate you.