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Cain and abel meme1/17/2023 In this book, I put God on trial for crimes against all of humanity. ![]() The Biblical Book of Job puts God on trial for crimes against Job and in Auschwitz, a group of incarcerated Jews, led by Elie Wiesel, put God on trial for crimes against Jews. And that was my purpose in writing this book which I’ve titled, Setting God Free: Moving Beyond the Caricature We’ve Created in Our Own Image. In any case, God is given a pass by those who believe in him while, for atheists, these passages are the final proof God is simply the ‘opium of the masses.’Īs a Catholic of 75 years and an ordained priest of 49 years, I’ve taken a very different tack. ![]() Instead, they attempt to dodge the issues by claims such as, “He is God, who are we to judge his behavior?” or “God has his reasons, we just don’t understand them” or we succumb to the Stockholm Syndrome whereby prisoners who are being held captive and brutalized by a captor begin to psychologically agree with his rants and viewpoints in order to survive the ordeal. ![]() But God-fearing Bible believers can’t go there. ![]() The phrase is, “the difficult passages.” If the chief protagonist were anybody else except God, he’d be immediately branded as a genocidal psychopath. There is a euphemism often used in the Judeo-Christian world to refer to certain parts of the bible.
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