• @groucho
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    153 days ago

    If you read it the right way, the book of Jonah reads like a really weird episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

      • FuglyDuck
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        43 days ago

        A narcissistic asshole gaslighting its victims into believing they’re not really victims because the narcissistic asshole made a bet.

        It’s supposed the be an explanation for how evil can exist despite a benevolent creator… but it sums up as a sock puppet to which the explanation is “you wouldn’t understand”

        • Flying SquidOP
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          43 days ago

          It’s also completely undermined in Isaiah.

          I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

          Isaiah 45:7. Evil exists because God creates evil.

          • FuglyDuck
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            3 days ago

            pretty sure Isaiah didn’t conceive of a benevolent god.

            pretty sure Isaiah’s god (all four isaiahs, in fact,) was a pretty freaking angry god.

      • @groucho
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        23 days ago

        Pretty much yeah. I was going to say an episode of Fear Factor but same thing.