Atheist Memes

The problem is the retcon. The OT OG is comically evil. I mean, okay, Zeus was a serial rapist and the entire pantheon was incredibly spiteful and petty. Most of the pantheons were pretty bad. They’re made up stories that reflect their times and cultures. Sometimes you get the Avengers. Sometimes you get The Boys.

I don’t know of another one where a god caused the eternal suffering of all life on earth because one man, whom that god designed and created with perfect knowledge knowing exactly what he would do, disobeyed him. It’s like if you get a brand new puppy and tell it not to shit on the floor while knowing that it will because it’s just a puppy, and then when it does you not only kill the puppy but dedicate the rest of your life to killing every dog, cat, or other animal that you see. As punishment. For a puppy. It’s not even evil. It’s clinically insane.

Unfortunately, that was the launching point of Christianity. They could have just come up with a new religion with a god of love and mercy, but because they built off of a Jewish apocalyptic cult, they painted themselves into a corner. The god that destroyed all life on earth because he didn’t like what some people were doing at the time now has to become the loving father. Then they weren’t satisfied with a prophet or martyr, they had to make him into god, too, because otherwise they felt they weren’t being serious enough.

Now, it’s a dumpster fire. You have everything from proclaiming universalism to people committing murder in the name of that weird god with the multiple personality disorder. And a disturbingly large number of people will reject anything and everything that goes against whatever their interpretation of the religion says - empiricism be literally damned - and most of the time it just so happens to be the religion they were born into, or a variant thereof.