Destroying fake Gods

[The Kilted Heathen]

It's still sadly funny that you christian zealots think that our idols are literally our Gods.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I would disagree (unless you are talking about later Christianity). Nowhere in the Gospels, letters or Acts did Christians do that.

What Does the Bible Say About Idolatry?

There's tons of examples of iconoclasm throughout the Bible. God commands the Jews to destroy the cult images of the Gods of others dozens of times. Christians picked up the habit from the Jews. The NT also presents other Gods as being demons. Zeus was referred to as "Satan" in Revelation, for example. Early Christians went around destroying Greco-Roman statuary and temples. You will often find statues of divine subjects that have crosses cut into their foreheads, defaming them. Sacred trees and groves were cut down, priests and priestesses were put to death and so on.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Two wrongs never made a right. IMO, this is the same attitude as the son--destroying other people's property. (I know you wouldn't do it, but the heart is the issue.)

No, I wouldn't do it myself but what goes around comes around.

 

[DavidFirth]

That's just you judging and being petty. You're projecting your own maliciousness and judgment onto the world and calling it "god."

Wrong. That's your opinion based off your presuppositions about me. I am simply repeating God's word. Idols lead men astray from God and that is wrong. Period.

 

[The Kilted Heathen]

What makes it wrong, David?

 

[Vinayaka]

So much hate in the world. It's sad.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Wrong. That's your opinion based off your presuppositions about me. I am simply repeating God's word. Idols lead men astray from God and that is wrong. Period.

How convenient that god's word happens to perfectly match your own judgmental psyche. It's very convenient for all the people who invent all sorts of gods in their heads who all just so happen to line up with their own projected psyches. What a fortunate coincidence for all.

 

[Jainarayan]

It's still sadly funny that you christian zealots think that our idols are literally our Gods.

It's because they don't understand. They prove Lao Tzu right all the time: "He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know."

 

[Jainarayan]

Idols lead men astray from God and that is wrong.

Why and how do they lead men astray?

 

[Skwim]

I understand what he did and can't help but agree with it. Idols corrupt people. Idols should be destroyed. I doubt I would have destroyed my parents' idols but God judges idolatry very harshly. You are better off without them.

Then you'd understand and be sympathetic to me if I came to your home and destroyed any images you have dealing with your religion. (I believe the Christian's obsession with Jesus amounts to idolatry.) Just leave a key under the door mat.

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[LuisDantas]

Why and how do they lead men astray?

Yeah, I want to know that as well.

It's still sadly funny that you christian zealots think that our idols are literally our Gods.

Half the time I am not sure that they mean it. After all, it is not a difficult thing to understand.

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

Ever since human beings started building false gods with their human hands, there has been other humans destroying them.

The statues people create aren't their gods - they're representations of their gods. That's like accusing Christians of worshipping cruciforms or the Sistine Chapel because it depicts Yahweh.

Of course wilful ignorance of other belief systems has been the defining trait of those who follow monotheist religions pretty much from the beginning.

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

Not at all. Even Jesus was beaten and crucified, Paul was stoned then beheaded.

"The unrighteous will always hate the righteous." The righteous being Jesus, not me, and the unrighteous hate his followers as well.

I only hate the behavior of people who expect super-lame excuses for destroying other people's property to be considered acceptable. "God made me do it!" - hahaha... no. And there YOU are, supporting said idiotic exuses. So yeah, I'll admit to hating your behavior, absolutely. But hate YOU? I don't even know you. Granted, your posts in general haven't impressed me so far (and before you get all huffy, I KNOW that you don't post trying to impress me... that doesn't mean I'm not allowed to be unimpressed).

So you support destroying other people's property if it differs from or competes with your personal belief set. Duely noted. My impression of you has just suffered a drastic loss. Not that you care - I just like keeping mental note for future reference is all.

 

[Kenny]

No, I wouldn't do it myself but what goes around comes around.

That is true... quite biblical. But if you do it in your heart, you have done it also and what comes around goes around.

Pray for your enemies is the correct response.

 

[Desert Snake]

It's still sadly funny that you christian zealots think that our idols are literally our Gods.

Who are you talking to?

The imaginary christian zealots who would be reading/care about your comment?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

That is true... quite biblical. But if you do it in your heart, you have done it also and what comes around goes around.

Pray for your enemies is the correct response.

I think you're reading too much into what I said. I can sympathize with pretty much any group that has their place of worship or sacred objects defamed but I won't pretend that I don't know who started it and whose churches and mosques stand on the holy sites of my ancestors and the ancestors of others.

Praying for enemies is foreign to my religion and is quite a ridiculous concept, imo. I will pray to Tyr and/or Odin to help destroy them or otherwise remove them as an obstacle, though.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I understand what he did and can't help but agree with it. Idols corrupt people. Idols should be destroyed. I doubt I would have destroyed my parents' idols but God judges idolatry very harshly. You are better off without them.

And we're the atheists...*sighs*

 

[Kenny]

I think you're reading too much into what I said. I can sympathize with pretty much any group that has their place of worship or sacred objects defamed but I won't pretend that I don't know who started it and whose churches and mosques stand on the holy sites of my ancestors and the ancestors of others.

Praying for enemies is foreign to my religion and is quite a ridiculous concept, imo. I will pray to Tyr and/or Odin to help destroy them or otherwise remove them as an obstacle, though.

OK

 

[The Kilted Heathen]

Who are you talking to?

The imaginary christian zealots who would be reading/care about your comment?

You obviously cared enough to read and reply to it. Got anything for us, syncretic? Maybe something about how I'm wrong about the word "idol," or maybe I'm misusing some names? Eh?

 

[Desert Snake]

You obviously cared enough to read and reply to it. Got anything for us, syncretic? Maybe something about how I'm wrong about the word "idol," or maybe I'm misusing some names? Eh?

You didn't give your concise definition of idol.
You stated that, the idol was not literally the deity.

You didn't state whether the deity was presiding in the idol, or not.