Christians often love to blame Jews for killing Jesus, as if the murder of his own son was not part of God's "divine plan" from the beginning. God, no less than King Herod the Great, apparently feared the reign of his own son as much as Herod did, and was willing to murder the whole world with a flood, not to "punish the world" for it's inequities, but to perhaps prevent a threat to his sole reign by an heir.
This is much like Saturn devouring his own son, depicted by Fransisco Goya, or even the great Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine, who succeeded where Abraham had failed, in murdering of his own son Crispus.
Constantine is far more like the Christian God than Abraham ever was, and the Christian church has been persecuting all those "children of God" - and for God no less - with as much obedience to their conception of "Christ" as the Sanhedrin murdered Christ in obedience to their own conception of Yahweh.
The enlightened "Christian," however, is quite smug in their conviction that they know the "real" God. And he is certainly not the kind of a God who would murder his own son like Saturn, or murder the whole world like Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot. No, never. God, the good Christian will assure you, is the most loving God there is, for God is love.
Of course, when you consider that genocide itself is grounded in scripture, and is even considered to be more of a virtue than slavery (a fact every Christian writhes in pain as they struggle to deny it), one sees that only those who strive to murder humanity on a scale as great as that which God has done so, and has even ordered his "chosen people" to do so on numerous occasions, can ever rise to the level of being considered a "god," much like Constantine and so many other Roman emperors.
This is much like Saturn devouring his own son, depicted by Fransisco Goya, or even the great Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine, who succeeded where Abraham had failed, in murdering of his own son Crispus.
Constantine is far more like the Christian God than Abraham ever was, and the Christian church has been persecuting all those "children of God" - and for God no less - with as much obedience to their conception of "Christ" as the Sanhedrin murdered Christ in obedience to their own conception of Yahweh.
The enlightened "Christian," however, is quite smug in their conviction that they know the "real" God. And he is certainly not the kind of a God who would murder his own son like Saturn, or murder the whole world like Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot. No, never. God, the good Christian will assure you, is the most loving God there is, for God is love.
Of course, when you consider that genocide itself is grounded in scripture, and is even considered to be more of a virtue than slavery (a fact every Christian writhes in pain as they struggle to deny it), one sees that only those who strive to murder humanity on a scale as great as that which God has done so, and has even ordered his "chosen people" to do so on numerous occasions, can ever rise to the level of being considered a "god," much like Constantine and so many other Roman emperors.
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