{"id":20917,"date":"2016-01-19T11:53:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/god-does-not-deserve-admiration"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:57:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:57:05","slug":"god-does-not-deserve-admiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/god-does-not-deserve-admiration","title":{"rendered":"God Does Not Deserve Admiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/assets\/fb_default.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>God does not exist. However, let\u2019s grant for a moment that God is real. Religious texts and practices show that God is wicked, cruel, and immoral, and totally unworthy of affection by moral human beings.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of brevity, we\u2019ll exclusively consider the God of the New Testament, and ignore the God of the Old Testament, Koran, and other books. This God is often portrayed as hip, cool, and loving. If we dig deeper into some of the basic tenets of Christianity held by mainstream Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox churches, we\u2019ll see that it\u2019s an elaborate smoke screen. The God of the New Testament is a beast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Problem of Evil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christian churches usually portray God as all powerful, all knowing, and all benevolent. Long ago, freethinkers discovered the silver bullet to prove that God is not a moral agent. The problem of evil, in its simplest form, goes like this, \u201cIf God is good, why does he let evil exist in the world?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/10\/24\/1438902\/-God-Does-Not-Deserve-Admiration\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God does not exist. However, let\u2019s grant for a moment that God is real. Religious texts and practices show that God is wicked, cruel, and immoral, and totally unworthy of affection by moral human beings. For the sake of brevity, we\u2019ll exclusively consider the God of the New Testament, and ignore the God of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44477,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917\/revisions\/44477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}