So that's what now, 614 commandments? Who the hell do you think you are? God? Well, could have fooled me. Of course you're God, or some ignorant fool pretending to speak for God. Bad attitude aside, this sign's message comes from John 13:34, in which Jesus is telling the listeners (and readers in this unfortunate case) to love their fellow man as he has loved them. Implications from Christians point out that Jesus (God), in his benevolence, loves his children dearly and wants us to love each other in the same fashion. In case anyone is completely unaware, this guy had to take his Prozac in order to prevent himself from engaging in any further religious mass-murder, which is one of the furthest things from tender loving of any sort.
Yes, that last part was a bit of sarcastic analogizing. What's serious is that God, in his complete holiness and benevolence thought that in order to purge evil from this world, he would have to set his people on fire, drown them in a great flood, rain hailstones upon them, strike them dead, disease them with plagues, and even send an angel of death to strike down the firstborn children of guilty people. The irony? God actually created this evil, and actually repented of it several times. Reality check: a perfect god would NEVER have to repent of anything that he's done, and to go even further, would not have had to engage in these hideous acts of religious slaughter to prove any point that he may have had. Some individuals that were killed in the bible didn't have a violent streak in them, but were still put to death just so that God could have a pissing contest with himself. See the story of Job for more details.
Yep, God is perfect. So perfect in fact, that he constantly treated the symptom and not the actual problem: himself.
Edit: Some people have tried to point out that the word 'repent' does not carry with it the modern meaning within the bible. Repent defined is:
As an intransitive verb:
a: to feel regret or contrition b: to change one's mind
As a transitive verb:
1 : to cause to feel regret or contrition
2 : to feel sorrow, regret, or contrition for
With that being said, I'd like to point out that the definition for 'repent' has not changed at all significantly since its first use. It had the same meaning then as it does now. Several apologists have also tried to use this tactic with other words in the bible, such as 'hate', with the same results; words that reputedly don't mean what they mean do in fact mean what they mean. It just goes to show that people will make any excuse for their crippled religion.
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