Benjamin Cain
Sep 29, 2022

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There are certainly more valid objections than I cover in this article.

"End of the world" might be too strong, but the expectation was at least for the end of the godless human reign over the earth. It was supposed to have been an apocalyptic transformation.

I'm pretty sure a Christian would deny that God's a tyrant who needs us to worship him; rather, God's a loving father who wants to share his love with his creatures--or something maudlin like that.

And my point about theism's incoherence is that you just have to state the fullness of the theology to discover the bait-and-switch and the internal contradictions. In this case, you'd have to point to Jesus's threats of hellfire, and to the contrast between the old and the new testaments (between the emphases on justice and on love and mercy).

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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