Exceptions

Recently, one of my favorite youtuber released this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0Vtk9ffGI&list=UULhtZqdkjshgq8TqwIjMdCQ&index=1

I found the logic of the video quite interesting and I've decided to extrapolate DarkMatter's message a little bit. Of course it would be better to watch the video itself and in fact I'd suggest that you stop reading this blog right now, click on the link instead, and watch it. It'll save you the trouble and don't forget to subscribe to him if you liked it.


Here goes,
To summarize the video, its about Batman trying to save Gotham from the clutches of the temporary evil overlord Bane, his planned method however, is to take all the firstborn sons of the citizens of Gotham as hostage. Then when he threatened the big bad with his plan, Bane offered to be pals with him. Of course Batman didn't accept, he then asks for advice from Superman who suggested to flood Gotham to kill everybody but commissioner Gordon and his family.

See the similarities? The Christian God supposedly drowned everything on earth once by the use of a global flood save for one family and an ark full of animal pairs, and supposedly killed all the firstborn in Egypt to free the supposedly enslaved Israelites. If people were to employ the same tactics now, what would you think of them? If Ra's Al Ghul plan to wipe Gotham off the face of the earth to destroy the evil people in Gotham was considered as bad, why is the Christian God's plan wasn't considered as one? If I were Ra's Al Ghul, instead of destroying the whole city, I'd employ a regiment of snipers, pick off evil people in Gotham and enforce the law, infiltrate the government and education system to make sure the youth don't follow the mistakes the adults did, and finally free pizzas for everybody. The last part wasn't necessary to the plan but you get the point. Why didn't God just struck evil people with his Godly Lightning Bolts(of doom)? Why kill all the puppies, kittens, pandas, hamsters, koalas, squirrels, human babies, and all the other animals who are considered amoral by christian standard? Why kill all the good and honest people? In fact, why kill them at all? the Christian God can supposedly do anything, how about doing something to change all the evil people to good? Appearing to everybody in a literal sense would settle everything won't it? Even in today's feud of worldviews, wouldn't that solve everything? God appearing on every screen, on the door of every government of every country, wouldn't that end all of the problems regarding worldviews? Isn't the current plan of just letting puny humans do what they want to do until they destroy themselves and come crawling back to God an inefficient plan?

As DarkMatter aptly put, why does the Christian God's actions must be constantly reminded as GOOD?
A little food for thought.
How would you answer that as a Christian if you are one? If you're not, but you are still subscribing to a deity centered religion, how would you justify similar events if there are some? Do you even have an answer? or are you going to your local religious leader and ask for some comfort on why these bad atheists are making you doubt your deity? Would you settle for the old "God works in mysterious ways"? or maybe "God has a perfect plan"?  Why am I asking all of these questions?

Okay, that was a lot of questions, and I apologize if I lost you somewhere there however, please try to answer the questions yourself, you might find whatever answer you came up enlightening, then again you might not.

If you think you've had enough, lost interest, or otherwise bored, I suggest that quit reading and go watch TV or Google lolcats.




My kinda blunt answer:

{Since time immemorial, people have always been afraid of uncertainty, afraid of death, afraid of petty things like thunder, small insects, ghosts, etc. Religion have provided a way of relieving people these insecurities with, IMO, answers that is based on "IDK". I mean really, getting one of those "God has a plan for you" when you ask for advice in what to do is the same as getting an "IDK". Some people take comfort in these things yet people, religious or not, ends the same way, either by luck or chance, both religious and non religious people can become rich or poor, happy or sad, etc.
Why do people make exceptions to their deity? Why doesn't people hold him in standards that they would set with their fellow men? Simple, they like the charade. They like the feeling of being on the supposedly winning side. They don't like being plagued by hard questions that will only lead them to face their own responsibility(like explaining why they condone such actions). Exceptions made for God allow them to continue the feeling of someone good watching over you, it allows for the image of an omni-belevolent deity to prosper. Is it bad? Yes, because sweeping it under the rug doesn't do squat. If I am wrong, I still won't change, I'll continue my path, I have regrets as much as the next guy but I can live with it. But what about you? Remember when your God told you to leave your friend because he's of a radically different religion? Or when you constantly tried to convert him and things ended badly? How would you feel about that now?
If you automatically assume that what your God does is good, what won't you assume as good?


Why do people make exceptions? To keep up the charades. }



Thank you for reading and I hope this post has stirred your curiosity.