Well, I'll be!! God does the atheists and all other non-believers a favor by disproving...Himself.
I subscribe to several Christian blogs in an effort to better understand the half baked ideologies of any faith founded on the Bible. One of the messages that was sent to me contained a link that tried to assert/prove that while love conquers all...love also hates. I clicked on the article and read the entire thing, and then read it again. Here is the link to the article:
The article is truly appalling as it shamelessly presents the idea that love and God both hate. The way this article tried to validate the emotion of hate as a sign of love is truly indifferent to the reality of love.
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
-Peter Ustinov-
The manner in which the author tries to validate her claim is perverse and offensive to everything that comprises what love is. In short, the author points out a verse in the Bible that says God is love, but then completely turns around and says that since God hates, then out of necessity love also hates.
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao Tzu-
Quoting the verse Psalms 11:5 which says, "The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, He hates with a passion," the author seemingly neglects the many Bible verses that proclaim God as love. Following that is the neglect to recall that love is supposed to be all-powerful, THE most powerful force in the universe since God is, after all, love. And isn't God enduring? And isn't love patient and kind and everlasting and faithful and persevering and unlimited, and so on and so forth?
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
-Thomas Mann-
Nothing can ever degrade, damage, harm, hurt, modify, mutate, stunt, defy, insult, or even diminish love. Love is THAT powerful. Love is supposed to be THE superseding force EVER. So, considering that I want to know how the author of this article came to the screwy conclusion that love hates. I don't want to hear any bullshit about the semantics of some twisted verse out of the Bible either. Give me a reason based validation.
"A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love."
-Anonymous-
The idea that love would falter or change in its position or change its core character of solid and pure forgiveness is nothing short of stupidity. Even better is the fact that this claim disproves God. Hah! God is love and love is God. God is eternal and so love is eternal. There are no limits on God. There are no limits on love. Listen closely all ye of twisted faith. Hate is a LIMITING factor that cannot even touch love with a ten foot pole. You can't say God is love and love is God and that both are eternal...and then turn right back around and claim hatred. What is wrong with you? When you do that you are admitting God does not exist. If love does not exist God does not exist. If hate is manifest (in deed or thought or action) then clearly love does not exist. You cannot have it both ways. God either is or is not everlasting love. There are no timeouts. There are no vacations. There are no variations.
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
-Benjamin Franklin-
Another part in this article tries to offer as evidence Old Testament verses that note God hates things such as robbery and wrongdoing, yada yada, plucka plucka. But this is also a stupid approach because God sure as hell did a lot of robbing and wrongdoing in the Old Testament. What did the children of Israel do as they left Egypt after the ten plagues? Why, God instructed them and allowed them to plunder the Egyptians. What they took from the Egyptians did not belong to the Israelites...but remember GOD allowed them to do this so it must be okay, right?
What about the so-called promised land of God's chosen people? Those lands already had people on them but God took it and 'gave' it to His people. And what about what God did to Job? The list goes on and on and on with example after example of this infallible God of love acting in a very hateful manner just to get His way or to get revenge. So, you do see where I am going with this, correct? God hates wrongdoing. Robbery and murder and all such things are wrong deeds to do. God has committed robbery and murder. God must then hate Himself.
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
-Charles Dickens-
I read the quote below and was struck with the reality and fierceness of hate within religion. Christianity is the hypocrite of hypocrites. There is no message of love to be found in this demented God and His abused Son. This can be easily proven just by considering the vile behaviors of some people professing to be Christian. Actually, like the person who wrote the article I am bitching about here. Looking for a loophole, a reason, anything that will serve the purposes of religion.
"We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentiality of human existence."
-Jean Toomer-
What is interesting is that with the absolute terrible character and behavior in the Bible on the part of God, Christians are in a way forced to make up some bullshit exception that will allow hate into the shepherd's flock. Why? Because the stupid bastards must explain away the cruelty, malevolence, crookedness, evilness, and hideousness of God's character, they HAVE to make an excuse for God.
"Whoso loves believes the impossible."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning-
Christianity is well known for its repeated assertions that God and the Bible and Jesus all say that there is no hope for mankind, that man is only good for fighting and killing, that the only cure for man is to initiate global disasters, heinous crimes against humanity, and a mega war that will eventually culminate with Jesus bursting into the picture riding on a white horse with an insanely large army of angels all set to destroy absolutely everything. And that is how you know that God does not exist.
God is supposed to have known everything even BEFORE He supposedly created everything. That being the case He would have known how this grand plan of His would end and out of love for man would do something about it. Out of sheer necessity God would have been required to behave and act and command lovingly. He completely FAILS to reconcile love with mankind, instead opting for untold violence and destruction. Such actions are devoid of love. If there is a void due to a lack of love...there is even a bigger void than that since God doesn't exist. And you DO realize that love CAN exist without God (and it DOES) but God CANNOT exist outside of love, right?
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
-Erich Fromm-
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