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@valerie102 – What a thoroughly hateful thing for your mother (the one person supposed to do everything to protect you) to say.
The concept of “God” is used to justify and excuse more evil than any other.
Centuries ago, people knew far less about the world and about illness than they do today. If you didn’t know why something was the way it was, you just said, “God did it” (or “this person has been possessed by the Devil, which must be beaten out of them”), and that explained everything.
It was also wonderful justification for invading, torturing, slaughtering, pillaging, etc. All you had to do was say, “God commands that we do this” (conveniently ignoring that the Ten Commandments forbid such things as murder, theft, and covetousness), and you were home free. In fact, you could commit the most unspeakable evils, and still get into heaven, simply by bribing a priest (otherwise known as getting an indulgence), or by repenting on your deathbed and leaving all your worldly goods to the Church.
You’d think we’d have gone beyond that sort of thing today, but, apparently, you can get fast-tracked to sainthood, despite claiming it was God’s will that you devote all your energies to protecting the image of the Church than to protecting millions of innocent children from abuse.
It is things like this that have opened my eyes to the fact that “God” is just a concept created by humans in order to exploit other humans.
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