whogeek | What. The. Fuck. (Reply)

So, I haven't had a good rant in a while, and brilligspoons posted a link to another LJ that had a link to this: mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130024
Ok, this is just like when people say that AIDs is God's way of punishing the gay people. Hello, go visit Africa, where AIDs is an epidemic among straight folk. Also, the whole "God is vengeful and will bring terrible things to his enemies" is total bunk. Why the hell else would he send HIS SON to die on a cross for OUR sins? The second coming stuff was a parable of sorts about how the Roman Empire was going to end: in blood and violence, the same way it had exerted control for as long as it did. God stopped destroying civilizations when Jesus died on the cross for us. Natural disasters aren't God punishing the world. They all have scientific basis. Earthquakes: the plates that make up the Earth's crust shifting and scraping past each other. Hurricanes: hot, wet, low-pressure systems that rotate around a concentrated center. Tornados: a confluence of air flows with vastly different temperatures at the edges of strong storm systems. Volcanos: spurs of hot magma into the Earth's crust that eventually work through to the surface. Earthquakes are the least predictable, and those along fault lines can actually be predicted within a fairly good margin of error now.

Now, these whack-jobs promoting the second coming stuff and the idea of God as being vengeful are either delusional, greedy scamming bastards, or both. The idea that the way to ensure you'll be saved is to be selfish and just try to save your own skin is repulsive. Jesus sacrified himself. He didn't try to save himself from dying on the cross. He taught that it is better to serve others than yourself. Better to forgive and forget than to hold a grudge. He taught to accept others, regardless of whatever sins they may have, as no one is perfect.[/religious rant]