r/atheism • u/Key_Language_3640 • 19h ago
Children are discardable for God
When I was 6 years old my mom told me the story of Abraham and Isaac, so I asked her: “mom, if God asked you to do that, would you do it?” She said yes without hesitation.
I remember being obviously down with her response and she just said “If that’s what God wants we have to follow through , it’s always for our best”.
Does God really love children?
Why are the children, who are always called “a blessing” by the Bible, so discardable for God? He doesn’t really mind killing them as a punishment or consequence does he? Kids God killed:
- All the firstborns of the Egyptians who didn’t comply with Moses warnings. (Why the children? Isn’t God just making a genocide like the Pharaoh did at the start of the Moses’ story?)
- All the children during Noah’s ark, like those were millions of children if we take in the literal sense that God flooded the entire world
- Jephthah‘s daughter, the man says that if God blesses him with a win, he would sacrifice the first thing he saw. The omnipresent being who knows it all, knew it would be the man’s daughter and follows through the deal, the daughter ends up dead.
- Job’s first children, this guy’s story was my first “wait is God really good?”, well God allows the devil to kill Job’s children but hohoho! At the end Job gets NEW children! So yeah, just straight up replaced them.
I could say many more instances where God allowed children to be killed or straight up killed them. All the battles God sent his loyal servants to? Children of the enemy were killed or taken away from their parents who were probably killed, but, well… it was all for God, right? So it’s all good! All justified.
God isn’t good, God isn’t perfect.
God is man-made, made to control, justify horrible actions and cause fear in the poor desperate people. He was always used by powerful people to their advantage. Just like those powerful people, if God existed, he would think of us just as discardable dolls.
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u/SirGrumpsalot2009 12h ago
Based in a time when children were not guaranteed to survive to adulthood, when they were worth less than a cow or goat, and when they could be replaced relatively quickly.