Torture and Burning: Why is the Christian God Bloodthirsty?
Abstract
Is there any meaning in the Christian God being tortured to death on the cross? Is it meant to show to Christians what they should not do? Or is it meant to demonstrate what they should do?
The whole history of [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it, and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine.
Is there any meaning in the Christian God being tortured to death in all the brutality that Mel Gibson depicts in The Passion of the Christ? Some of us, as children, thought it was meant to show to Christians what they should not do. They said he was the God of love who urged everyone to love each other to cure the never ending bloody strife between people. His own cruel death showed exactly what he meant.
Why then do Christians not notice this simple message?
• They have committed worse atrocities than did their own God’s tormentors. •
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