Mx. Luna CorbdenMay 16

Let's set aside the Problem of Evil for a moment, and examine a new idea:

The Problem of Authoritah

(As in "Respect my authoritah!")

Given:
1. God is omnipotent
2. God wants all the Glory
3. One day God will rule over all the earth, every knee shall bow and call him God.

Then:

Why doesn't he just rule earth *right now*?

If he made the universe, then why didn't he design it so that all the best evidence points directly to his glorious right to rule? Why is earth made so that the best evidence on the question of his very existence always weasel away from that conclusion? What a sad, sad creation he made, when he wanted so badly to be worshipped, but even his existence is not blatantly obvious?

It's almost as if... Satan got the better of him. And how can that be, if God is omnipotent?

(Stay with me here.)

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Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenMay 16

Free will is supposed to be the escape hatch here (as it is for the Problem of Evil), but show me one person on earth who truly has free will, who can do whatever they want for good or for evil? It doesn't seem like God (supposedly Supreme) has done a very good job giving us free will, because we all have *someone* ruling over us... it's just not Him. Doesn't that seem kind of... weak? God seems like a push-over. He is very bad at his job.

Continuing on free will, since when does a strong and mighty ruler let anyone under their power get away with doing whatever they want? Doesn't this indicate God is *impotent*? Maybe, possibly, a Big Pussy?? It seems like he doesn't have the strength or the will to do what is needed.

Supposedly, he's all about love, but not only is love a sign of weakness, he's not even strong enough to enforce the love, resulting in all kinds of pain and suffering. Like a huge muscly dad watching his kids come home from school bullied and bleeding every single day without doing a damn thing about it.

The "love" motive sounds like an excuse made by a sad loser who is all talk but no walk. All hat and no cattle. All AR-15 but it's Nerf™ brand.

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Show threadMx. Luna Corbden

I know this doesn't feel as rational as the Problem of Evil. But it is meant to address authoritarian religious theologies, which are all the rage right now, and have been for most of human history. But those past religions were allowed to enforce their dominance through, well, force. They had the goods to back up their claims. Christianity, as it stands in this moment, is trying (and failing) to straddle post-Enlightenment values (freedom, love, equality, reason) with an Edgelord God of the Past.

The Problem of Authoritah is designed to shine a light on those particular contradictions in a way that the Problem of Evil cannot.

Because authoritarian reasoning works differently than we are used to. The basis of the Problem of Evil makes a fundamental error. It assumes authoritarian adherents to religion are against "evil." They are, dear reader, not. But they are all *for* authority. And that is the lynchpin in their fragile Jenga tower.

If "might makes right," then why isn't the Almighty making Alrighty? That's the soft spot this line of thinking is meant to address. Whatever omnipotent God wants should be how it is, and if it isn't, then he's a big babypants who can't do what needs to be done.

"Well," they may think, "that's why we Christian Nationalists are trying to take everything over. To make way for God to return and rule in style the way it's meant to be..."

But then WHY does "omnipotent" GOD need their relatively weak-asses to do that for him? That sounds like cuck behavior to me. Either on the part of God or on the part of God's servants. Take your pick. He can't do it on his own. How very, very sad.

I'd be interested to see this one brought up at a theism debate or on one of these videos or podcasts. That's an experiment I'd bring my biggest popcorn for.

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Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenMay 16

"Proud to be God's cuck" bumper stickers.

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Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenMay 16

See, on our side, we have the Problem of Love.

We can't think like they do. We can't extrospect, we can't walk a mile in their shoes. Our empathy for them projects our own thinking styles onto them. It's our biggest weakness. We approach them with reason that appeals to us, but not to them.

When I apply their thinking styles with an outsider's freedom to poke holes in their ideology, I come up with all kinds of things that would be broken *by their own value system* and using their own words.

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Show threadDavid Mitchell May 16

@corbden

“God’s logic is not our logic” and “God’s ways are not our ways”, and then they proceed to push, pull, cut, stretch, deform God to make god just like them, only a little more.

Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenMay 16
@DavidM_yeg Very much.
Show thread🐦‍⬛May 16

@corbden I guess the bronze age storm/war god can't do shit about fuck.
/Shrug

"It's all part of God's plan" all of it. All the suffering. All the hatred. All the tears. Baby bone cancer. All of it is a part of God's plan. And he's all powerful, so he makes it this way on purpose.

The religion that results should be one that views life as a test or a challenge, with the goal of learning the lessons of living under the cold drunk-daddy god of mortality and suffering. Instead, it is about living in delusion and rejecting reality that doesn't favor one's own sociopolitical caste or the caste of the priest class. Praise and worship, evangelism. At least they don't hide their bigotries anymore, but they don't embrace them as the teachings of a storm/war god, but as the teachings of merciful, loving God. Ridiculous on its face.

Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenMay 16
@Crow And cruel.