(Pro) The Christian God is malevolent vs benevolent (Con).

Round three rebuttals"In my personal point of view, God is like a parent in the sense that the consequences He gives us as His children, is the direct contribution to our progression as an ever advancing civilization. A parent is essentially a friend and a trainer and his toughness when necessary for the child." persianimmortalI disagree with the first sentence and agree with the second. In the first sentence I do not see God as a parent like figure. First, parents in nature have to have sexual intercourse to reproduce. Think of a mountain lion and lioness. There is a lot of energy expended to mate, bear children, give birth, protect and feed those children until maturity. God is portrayed as infinite in contrast. Creating humans seems to require little to no effort on God's behalf. This devalues humans and life in general. No wonder there is so much blood shed connected with Christianity. Furthermore, a mountain lion and lioness have parents of their own. God has no parents. This not only is irrational, but again shows how vastly different God is from humans and all known lifeforms. Plants have parents, microorganisms have parents, God does not. God is more foreign to humans than single celled organisms. Truly, understanding the physical nature of God is an extremely difficult task. To show how foreign God is, God does not need to eat and rarely needs to rest. I can understand an energy being that needs to consume at least once a day to be healthy, but God seems even more foreign and distant than an energy being. In fact, humans have more in common with the average immaterial object than God. In summary, I completely reject the analogy of comparing God to a parent. This is a bad analogy. A better analogy would be comparing humans to God's pets. "Description: When an analogy is used to prove or disprove an argument, but the analogy is too dissimilar to be effective, that is, it is unlike the argument more than it is like the argument." [9]"That is clearly not the case because regardless of what an average/ideal parent says or the punishment they give to the child, the parent always loves them no matter what and as I said before, it is for the good of the child's growth." persianimmortalParents rarely kill their children. God often kills his "children." The relationship between God and humans is more like a pet and pet owner relationship than a father and children relationship. An even better analogy between God and humans would be between farmer and crops. Humans are the crops. " The temple of the idol worshippers was in the land that God had promised the Jewish peoples. However, these were no ordinary temples, for they contained unspeakable evils that were ultimately concerous to the spirituality of the devout Chosen people. The temples they used to pray to their interpretation of a supreme being, was used as grounds for harlotry, essentially cult prostitution. Both males and females when they reached the age of maturity, partook in this sick activity of being the prostitute of the temple, apssed around to those who unleashed their sexual urges on young men and women, boys and girls alike." persianimmortalI'm sorry, I just can't perceive your point of view. I just can't see consenting adults having sexual intercourse at an unspeakable evil. Nor, do I see the relevance of the holy land promised to the Jewish people. Finally, I fail to understand how false idol worship is a terrible crime. To compare all these harmless acts to genocide is well ridiculous. This would be like comparing a teenager spraying painting a piece of wood that he owned in his own backyard to Stalin's mass murder of millions. All the acts you mentioned by the idol worshipers are absolutely benign. To label these deeds as evil is evil within itself. I understand the need to sometimes use a heavy hand, but the punishment must fit the crime. If, let's say a bunch of aliens were going to nuke and exterminate everyone on Earth and the only way to save Earth was to push a button that would destroy all the aliens, this could be seen as justifiable homicide, since it was self defense. Yet, this is not the case. This is not self-defense and cannot be justified. " This is the cancer that had dominate the land in which God had promised the Jewish people. " persianimmortalCancer is a degenerate disease with treatments. Although a cure is unreliable at best, the effects of cancer can often be mitigated by a combination of healthy life style, medication, and surgery. To compare people, living breathing people to cancer is dehumanizing and a false analogy. [9]Couldn't God have just scared the idol worshipers away to other lands? Surely, their journey would have been harsh. Exile in lieu of genocide. Or perhaps, order his followers to exile the idol worshipers. This is within the power of a God who can part the Red sea and other miracles. "So in conclusion, I have presented an All-Benevolent Parent (God) who gives us necessary consequences, positive and negative, as result we become the ever-advancing civilization that grows and develops and constantly learns from its mistakes. " persianimmortalYou have shown a God which in no way resembles a parent give extreme penalties for benign behavior. The question I am left over and over with through out my life is "why, why did God kill false idol worshipers?" You have tried to explain why it is so terrible and many others have also tried, but I have never understood why false idol worship is supposed to be such a heinous crime. Same goes with supposed crimes of lust involving two or more consenting adults. This is the dual problem why I cannot understand theists. The both irrational and immoral nature of God. To kill someone just because they worship a false idol or killing four or more consenting adults performing sexual acts seems bizarre, irrational, and immoral. I find trying to make sense or align myself with this thinking and feeling is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. I just become frustrated, angry, and make no progress. I read your words, I can rebuttal your arguments, but I cannot understand your point of view. Sources.9. https://www.logicallyfallacious.com...