Why do lot people here say God is evil

The reference to the old testament that God was very angry God and mean God and hard core conservative well the new testament God is still angry and mean but bit more liberal. People say the Quran and the Bible is very conservative and God is extremely angry and mean purging most everyone into fire and the burning lake that don’t worship him.

So this got me thinking is God really Tevin.

You would think burning fire lake hell like this purging most everyone into fire that don’t worship him.





Would be run and controlled by the devil.

That the Quran and the Bible commanded people to kill non believers and wipe out major cities. And worshiping God is not enough to get to Heaven.

 

The Prophet Muhammad was once asked : "What actions are most excellent?" He replied, "To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured."

"The faithful servants of the Beneficent are those who walk upon the earth modestly, and when the ignorant address them, answer, "Peace!"

Perhaps it might be more informative to actually read the Quran and Bible instead of merely speculating about what they might say.
Peace.

 

Tevin? You mean God is Tevin Campbell?

 

Tevin? A given name of Gaelic origin meaning "charming", beautiful at birth", "poet"--a variant of Kevin? Well, He used to go by El, but later revealed that His real name was YHWH. Has he opted for another name change, in the manner of "the artist formerly known as Prince"?

And how many "lot people here" say God is evil? Does here mean Hip Forums? I'm not sure that's true, even of lot people, whoever they might be.

 

I agree that too many people think of God in anthropomorphic terms--as the Big Daddy in the Sky. And that God has also taken over the contradictory attributes of loving and punitive patriarch resulting from yoking together the War God of Bronze Age Israelites with Jesus' Abba.. Careful study shows an evolution in concepts of God from the wrathful war god Torah to the Axial Age prophets and beyond. Compressing the time span results in a somewhat oxymoronic composite of wrathful and loving elements. I tend toward the Hindu solution to the problem: thinking of God as similar to the Brahman in the Hindu Upanishads: the Ultimate Reality, or Universal Principle--the "Ground of Being", in Paul Tillichs's terminology. Hindu theologians recognized that humans have a hard time getting their minds around such an abstraction--hence the Trimurti of Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer, Shiva destroyer, and their estimated 33 million forms, emanations and avatar's suiting the needs of the devotees. The God of contemporary philosophers and theologians like Tillich is more like that.than Sky Daddy. Freud had fun mocking them in Future of an Illusion. They "give the name of God to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves." But I say: better that than the literal approach of backwoods preachers and their followers, who think of God as a Cosmic Santa Claus. Anyhow, Freud was a product of the materialist era in which he lived--before Heisenberg and Einstein muddied the waters. I think of God as whatever is responsible for the Laws of Science and as "the summation of human idealism"--the latter being a product of cultural evolution. Necessarily vague, as befits the ineffable, but good enough for me.

But in the video, Carlin is over-simplifying. The "religion" he's talking about is a traditionalist version of Christian or Muslim belief--or possibly some Pharisaical Jewish variant (the Sadducees who controlled the Temple cult rejected Hell, and Jews today are split on the subject.Do Jews Believe in Hell?) Religion is a complex, multi-functional phenomenon meeting a variety of individual, elite and societal needs. For individuals, it may provide: cognitive mapping orienting us to perceived reality; realization of human tendencies to perceive patterns and agency in nature, relief from existential anxieties, projection of unconscious needs and wants, a set of ingrained beliefs inculcated by trusted authorities, and/0r a sense of meaning and purpose in life. For society, it is an instrument of social control, a means of inhibiting anti-social impulses and/or mobilizing individual efforts toward the common good. For unscrupulous clerics, politicians, and ruling classes: a justification for social privilege and a means of manipulating people.

For me, it's, in the words of Luther, a "joyful bet" that life has ultimate meaning in a set of values based on peace, love, and social justice. I think of God as a felt presence of a Higher Power "in whom we live and move and have our being". Acts 17:28) To me, Heaven is a metaphor for what it would be like if every individual followed Jesus' (or other enlightened prophet's) basic teachings and personal example of unconditional love of God and neighbor. Hell is what it would be like if they didn't: a proverbial "war of all against all', in which (according to Hobbes) life would be "nasty, brutish and short". Unfortunately, I fear, we're very close to finding that out from personal experience. I think it's futile to blame God for this. It's a natural consequence of the choices we make, including the politicians we elect! Gravity says to us: Thou shalt not jump off the top of the Empire State Building--lest thou make a big splash on Broadway." To blame gravity for that would be silly. We should be thankful for the warning!