Yeah, but by the Judaeo-Christian concept of God, he knew we were going to this even before he created us - he's omniscient!

Be that as it may, if I were Almighty God I would be sending out a bolt of lightning with Shrek's name on it for being cheeky enough to start this thread.

Personally, as an atheist, I think it's a good thread. But if I were Almighty God I'd not be taking any cr@p from anyone.

Yh. Ironically, Shrek's the most militantly Christian person on this forum (I think - correct me if I'm wrong). Presuming to correct God's conduct must be a pretty bad sin by his own philosophy (not that the philosophy in question makes any logical sense anyway).
There is a fair point behind it  all though, because if God does exist then he's crap at his job. If I was omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, I'd ensure that the world was a better place than it is.

I think if i were god i would condone Genocide, human sacrifice, kill my own son, promte slavery, create a hell throw good people in it for not believing in me and "save" people for supplicating to me. I would outlaw homosexuality and the eating of pork and shellfish.
I would make myself known to illiterate bronze age hillmen and then let the people get on with things never intervening.
That is what I would do, because it makes good sense and is very moral.

god goes "WTF"



and Jesus said " Congrats Sky, you ideas are closer to the truth tha even you know."

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God tells Moses to exterminate the residents of Canaan and destroy all of their religious symbols and possessions. 33:50-52

God delivers the Amorites into Moses' hands. (You're in God hands with Moses.) So Moses does the usual thing, killing everyone "until their was none left alive." 21:34-35

31:1-54. Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." So they went back and did as Moses (and presumably God) instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins


God killed all the Egyptian firstborn. 33:4

But if the Israelites don't kill them all, then God will make them pricks in their eyes and thorns in their sides. And he will do unto the Israelites as he planned to do to the inhabitants of Canaan. 33:55-56


Go doesn't REALLY kill people who murder others does he Shrek? It kinda looks like he condones this?

Admittedly, all the people who did these killings would now appear to be dead. So, in a way, God did carry out capital punishment on them, even if the murders were his idea to start with!

in the poem "God gets it off his chest" I like the verse that deals with sin:

"All the endless confessions of trivial transgressions,
I've heard them so often before!
The odd one or two may contain something new,
but they're mostly a terrible bore..."

Alison

If I were god (which I'm not) I'll start another planet

From the same poem I quoted from before:

"I thought it divine, that product of mine, as I spun it around to inspect it;
But (the workings of Fate!) I discovered too late, there was no-one but me to direct it.  

But the biggest mistake I could possibly make was installing humans on the planet.
It was soon overflowing with what they call “knowing”. It made me regret I’d began it..."

Alison

Nice - that poem was the perfect choice!

Thank you Alison and Genesis!