God spoke to me last night…

He said I should take my friends and family and everyone where I live and move into Calmar, which is a community across the river from where I live.

God told me that if I obeyed him and you obeyed me as a representative of God Almighty himself, that peace, harmony, joy, riches, a good life, and eternal salvation will be yours.

We must move to Calmar. Unfortunately, Calmar is infested with Calmarians and they must be destroyed because they are evil anyway. God has commanded that we do not negotiate, nor have mercy on, nor spare any Calmarians. We must go there and kill all of them including the women and children. Especially the women and children. We must kill them all, then burn everything to ashes, saving nothing, not even are we allowed to take their animals, they also must be destroyed.

Do not fret because these Calmarians are evil people, the spawn of Satan and therefore sub-human. If you do not obey it will go very badly for you from the hand and word of the Almighty God whom I serve faithfully, and who speaks to me daily.

Will you follow me into battle and murder the town of Calmar and all it’s inhabitants, sparing none?

Of course you wouldn’t. That would be totally insane. How about then, if I suggested to you that Hitler, in his campaign to commit genocide against the Jewish people, and mass murder against anyone else who disagreed with him, was totally justified? What about Pol Pot in Cambodia? What about manifest destiny and the murder of the aboriginal peoples all over the world? What about the Spanish inquisition? What about the massacre and genocide in Rwanda, Bosnia, Armenia, and in countless other times and places?

What if because one of my employees stole an insignificant amount of office supplies that I retaliated by executing thousands of my own employees by poisoning their coffee with some horrible disease organism just to teach you and future employees a lesson? Do you think that would be a reasonable course of action on my part? (This is actually from the Bible but paraphrased heavily to lend a modern turn to the story).

Why then, would you attribute these same actions to God? Why would you put God in the same psychopathic genocidal maniac mold that you put others in? Why do you think it is OK for God to commit merciless genocide for no sane rational reason just because he is God? Don’t you think it is strange to say that God is love and mercy and forgiveness then blink and smile when he commits atrocities and genocide? Today we would call such a character a dangerous schizophrenic psychopath and lock him up forever.

This is one of the major reasons why I don’t think the Bible reflects God’s character in this matter. It is very obviously a total forgery written by people very much like Hitler and Pol Pot who want to maintain power and control at any price. And if they find willing sheep for them to do their bidding, why not?

I am telling you here and now that God did not command people to be so immoral. He did not order the destruction of entire races. He did not suggest to Abraham that he murder his only son. If you believe that, then you are wrong about the character of God.

I believe that the immoral leaders first selected other peoples and tribes outside their own, then de-humanized them so that it would be OK to kill them because they are just demons in disguise anyway. It is the so-called leopard theory in politics where you set up an outside threat to make your own people forget your faults and focus their attention on an outside (but imaginary) threat while you consolidate your own power at home.

Why do you persist in thinking that God would command such atrocities, yet claim he is all-good, and merciful? This is completely contradictory to his good character. If you or I acted that way, how would you feel about our character and trustworthiness?

This is why I think that the Bible, although perhaps revealing the real God to some unknown extent, is full of lies and slander against God. My intent is to show that the Bible is not the perfect work of God, but has been heavily edited, altered, and changed, and finally stapled together by the growing political power of the first millennium and called “The Bible”. I am NOT saying that the entire Bible is hogwash. I don’t know for sure. I AM saying that many claims in it are not true, especially the science which will be my main focus in future posts.

By the way, just for the record, God did NOT, nor has he EVER spoken to me. And I love the people of Calmar.