Doug Holland@lemmy.world to Atheist Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoHow the Abrahamic religions startedlemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1939arrow-down133
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minus-squareJLock17@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-24 months agoJob: “Thanks for giving me back everything you took from me in that bet with Satan, but can you please bring my dead family back to life?” God: “We haven’t established that lore yet.”
minus-squareSuite404@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months agoGod: I replaced them, what’s your problem?
minus-squareJLock17@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 months agoI constantly reference Job for exactly that logic. Early Christianity saw family as property first.
Job: “Thanks for giving me back everything you took from me in that bet with Satan, but can you please bring my dead family back to life?”
God: “We haven’t established that lore yet.”
God: I replaced them, what’s your problem?
I constantly reference Job for exactly that logic. Early Christianity saw family as property first.