Responding To: What FAITH Means; According To A Violently-Peaceful Religious Extremist.

Responding to:
https://www.facebook.com/NoaQuattro888/posts/10227176331811730 
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A backup copy/paste of that post can be found here. (click for link):
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[note: you can get the gist of what her post said, just by reading my responses; if you're pressed for time.]

My thoughts on this:

When the Hebrews copied the story about Abraham killing his son (from a different/older religious culture),

and then changed it to fit their current religious narrative,

they did not believe in resurrections.

They didn't believe humans have souls,
nor that they get an afterlife.

Only once they mixed with Greeks (many centuries later) did the Greeks' theories about afterlives (good and bad) start to get adopted by some (not even most) Hebrews.

The "Abraham" character in the story
did not expect his son to be raised up.

- Nor would that have been sufficient moral justification.

The idea of "my God will repair or replace my child after I brutally murder them"

or

"my God will unmelt my disobedient wife's face later, after I pour this battery acid on her ... just as the voice in my head commanded it"

doesn't cancel-it-out as horrific violence and the most severe expressions of abuse.

What the story (and you) are advocating for is:
violent religious extremism.

In fact, worse yet,
you're telling people who:
hear voices
to obey the voices; but:
only if the voice claims to be your God.

THAT is what Andrea Yates did, when she drowned her little kids.
Per your religion, she should be praised as a saint.

Worse yet,
you're giving religious license to everyone who FEELS an urge to do any kind of violence (or any other crazy shit) to DO IT ... as long as they feel like they are being moved by "The Spirit of God".

You might want us all to be forced (by people like you)
to live in a world like that. But I'd sure rather not.
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Also, please note:
The Hebrews were a violent nomadic cult.

They were the most blatant and extreme version of a literal "religion" that any group can be.

Any timeless and unchanging "God" who saw no problem with religion, or with cults, or with violent extremism done in his name ~way back then~ ... would (today) STILL not have a problem with such things.

And you might not want to admit that you are a violent religious extremist in a selfish, willfully ignorant, and hateful cult, ...
 
but you are. 
 
Meanwhile, the entire field of accredited archeology
insists that Abraham, Moses, and Noah were mythical.

It's possible that the fiction-writers were getting some of their ideas from actual real-life child-murdering, puppy-drowning, violent religious extremists.
It's possible THOSE things were true.
But the larger history-changing events the stories claim happened ...
did
not
happen.

These are just a few points; chosen randomly.

Everything you said is unreasonable.
It would just take hours to explain all of the errors.

 And while I do understand that your faith-narrative and 'walk of life' brings you PEACE ...

It shouldn't.

It wouldn't, if you were psychologically healthy.

And I really really wish it didn't bring you peace or joy; because:

 only someone deeply unsettled by all that
is capable of outgrowing it.

So ask yourself, ...
what does it prove
when a Native American Spiritualist,
or a Roman Catholic,
or a JW,
or a Mormon,
or a Wiccan
experiences the same grand level of miracles in their lives?
I ask this because:
They do experience such things.

Neither ~special pleading~ 
nor 
hypocrisy
are worthy of respect. 
 So whatever miracles DON'T prove about people in different religions ... 
 miracles don't prove about yours either.

If anything, it's a good argument for the existence of LOKI.
 He's exactly the type of "God" who would go around giving "proof" to all the religions/cults in the world ... that they each have an exclusive "Makes God Happy" seal-of-approval. 

Click here, to see Yahweh's Amazing Test (Abraham, Genesis 22)

To hear the totally fitting music I've chosen to end this blog with, 
click here. 
 This is what I've identified as the theme song for all the bible-story writers, editors, and apologists. 
 Enjoy :)