Religion is a Mental Illness

God and Disney.

Will Xians finally stop pretending this fable actually happened?

Is there any part of your religion left that actually is true?

Believers: The universe is too complex to not be created! Also Believers: Here’s an absurd, contradictory fairytale of literal magic that explains this complexity perfectly.

Murdery, genocidey, puppy-drowny “love.”

It isn’t just that he created evil and concocted the situation that unleashed the sin of “knowledge” on the world. It isn’t just that he apparently had no choice but to kill everything on Earth - including all plants, all children, all babies, all puppies, all kittens. It isn’t just even that with all power available to him, he couldn’t think of a better solution.

It’s all of this. And that he went out of his way to make sure their deaths were torturous and miserable and protracted, that they saw it coming as everything around them was slowly destroyed, and everyone around them thrashed and struggled, eventually exhausting and choking and spluttering to their dark watery demise. And never knew why.

He lovingly slowly suffocated them with water as they gradually succumbed to fatigue over many days. Lovingly.

Gather ‘round children, for the beautiful tale of god’s genocidal loving genocide of love. Because he loves you so much and sometimes loving things means killing them.

Every animal, every baby, every child, every pregnant woman... slowly, with 40 days and 40 nights of rain..

Fuck, your god sucks so much fetid ass. Even the Galactic Empire had the decency to blow up Alderaan in an instant.

"The most historically accurate book in the world!1!one!!”

Seeking forgiveness for imaginary crimes from a creature that doesn’t know right from wrong, let alone seek redemption for its own atrocities? That hog ain’t gonna fly.

God of the petulant hissy fit.

On the one hand, we can sleep easy knowing that this silly tale never happened. On the other hand, you may be kept awake realizing that some people think it did and they worship the imaginary supervillain who (supposedly) committed this atrocity: the god of genocide.

Just for argument’s sake, let’s stipulate for a moment that “god” had to kill everyone for being the bad people he already knew yet created them to be, and despite him not bothering to hand down his narcissistic rulebook until eight generations later.

For the god who would eventually go on to kill every firstborn in Egypt in their sleep (in a magical pissing contest, no less), or could simply snap them out of existence with a word, it wasn’t enough that everybody died. No, they had to suffer,

They had to see it coming, they had to see the cold waters rising, they had to be helpless, they had to be terrified, they had to struggle and gasp, they had to see each other die one by one and know what was coming, they had to see their land-based animals exhaust and succumb, they had to see their children thrash and choke, they had to see everyone they loved die in desperation, they had to cry out in vain for help from the god they knew was there, and they had to never know why.

Only that could correct the problem. Which, as it turns out, was vague, non-specific “wickedness” - doing what he created humanity to do, and not following what he hadn’t yet told them.

If such a god-creature actually existed, it would have to be the single most despicable, immoral, villainous, reprehensible, outright evil creature to ever exist. What kind of person would worship such an abominable monster?

Thank goodness it doesn’t.

Your god is not good.