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Debating the Golden Rule vs. the Platinum Rule
The Knowledge of Good and Evil
Why you don’t need Christianity to understand Good vs. Evil
Religion has a way of always trying to make itself more relevant, more important than it really is, and Christianity is no different.
Christians are constantly on a marketing path that attempts to suggest that without them, without their Bible, without their delusional faith in their bloody human sacrifice of Jesus, Humanity is destined for an eternal torture in hell at the hands of a “loving” and “merciful” God.
Note that creating a life that exists for but a brief moment in time, and then torturing that life for the rest of entity because it didn’t choose some pet version of religion not only smacks of the ultimate narcissist, but a ruthless evil pagan God as well.
But that is what so-called “Biblical” Christians teach.
Judaism has similarly skewed views of GOD. Practicing Jews, like Conservative influencer Ben Shapiro, who has likely millions of Christian followers even though he’s very Jewish, attempt to say that without Torah (the Law), and the rest of the Tanakh (that would be the “Old Testament” for Christians), it is impossible for anyone to know the difference between good and evil.
Huh?
Like the bloody sacrifice of millions of animals was something a truly holy GOD would ever asked for?
In numerous previous articles, I have unabashedly shown point-blank that GOD never once demanded sacrifices—ever. Yet, both early Judaism and later Christianity demand that not only did [their version of] God demand sacrifices, but somehow their book that tries to legitimize this Pagan atrocity is somehow “holy”.
Just so we know, blood sacrifice (the killing of some innocent living thing to somehow atone for your sin) is EVIL; it is NOT of GOD; and in Ezekiel 18, GOD not only repudiates such evil (meaning: inherited sin, and by extension: substitutionary atonement) in no uncertain terms, GOD is very clear about what it means to BE “righteous”.
And there is no blood-soaked sacrifice—animal, human, or even demigod—required.
