Sunday's Lesson: Why believe in a false god?

Why believe in a vain and false god? To wit:

• 1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.


• 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.


• 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.


• 4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

If these are not the ramblings of a vengeful, spiteful, self-conceited and not too bright god who has to compete for love, devotion and attention with other more established gods I don’t know what it is.

Besides, believing in this YWHW false god doesn't it elevate an oriental and miniscule tribe, the Israelites above others more successful tribes less prone to flights of fancy?

Sheer nonsense but a nice try. Moreover this god is clearly misogynistic:

Why did the angel Gabriel visit Miriam (=Mary) to announce her immaculate conception and not God himself? After all God had already revealed himself to the desert wanderer Moses in the form of a confabulating burning bush. Am I to think that Mary the mother of Jesus Christ, the incarnate godhead, is less worthy of God's attention than Moses a mere rabble rouser?

• If I lived in Egypt in 1500 BC, I would have had an absolute and unquestionable belief in Amon-Ra.


• If I lived in Persia in 1400 BC, I would have had an absolute and unquestionable belief in Zoroaster.


• If I lived in Babylon in 597 BC, I would have had an absolute and unquestionable belief in Marduk (but I would have liked Ishtar better!).


• If I lived in Greece in 435 BC, I would have had an absolute and unquestionable belief in Zeus.


• If I lived in Scandinavia in 700 AD, I would have had an absolute and unquestionable belief in Odin (but I would have liked Thor better!).

Living in the USA of today, should I have an absolute and unquestionable belief in the God of the Bible?

So much for the faith and tradition of our Forefathers. A faith that started around 100AD for Westerners. Got legitimacy around 313AD with Constantine’s Edict of Milan. Broke up in Roman Catholic and Protestant main sects with the advent of the printing press (1400’s) and is almost ignored in Europe now. Leaving the US as the “true believers” on par with the “fanatical” Moslems.

Just think how much more advanced we would be if instead of all that wasted time and energy studying the Bible, believers applied themselves to science and mathematics!

The sane and proper thing to do with all the bibles is to recycle them into toilet paper thereby saving a few trees.

In my humble opinion only weak and unimaginative minds can believe the crap of the Bible. Goodness is inside all of us not found in stinking lies about self serving divine revelations.