An Evil God?: Introduction

Introduction

“The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction,” says Richard Dawkins, “but it is not the sort of book you should give your children to form their morals.”

Like most Christians, I once thought that the Bible was the only source of morality for humanity. The thought that it could teach immorality would have been blasphemous. It was the most beautiful book in the world, written by God himself.

In other words, I was delusional. Even though I had read the Bible many times, I could only see it through the lens of faith. If anything was confusing or seemed out of place, it only spoke of my unfaithfulness and ignorance — it couldn’t be anything wrong with the Bible itself.

With that perspective, the Bible cannot be proven wrong. The Bible doesn’t contain contradictions, only paradoxes. God isn’t schizophrenic, he’s mysterious and beyond our understanding. And if your prayers don’t work, well, it’s because you don’t have enough faith.

It’s amazing that anyone can escape the cult of Christianity after using that kind of circular logic for so long.
The Bible Can Support Anything

As history attests, the Bible can be cited to support almost anything. It can inspire both good and evil, for it contains both.

It can be used to support pacifism (Jesus says “do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.”) and war and genocide (God commands Saul to “strike Amalek and [destroy] all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant…”).

It can be used to support slavery (Paul says “slaves, obey your masters with fear and trembling … as you would Christ”) and human dignity (Jesus says “love your neighbor as yourself”); misogynism (Paul says “women are not permitted to speak [in church], but should be in submission,”) and equality (Paul says “there is no male or female … you are all one”); in obeying government (Paul says “let every person be subject to the governing authorities”) and disobeying government (The apostles refused to obey the Roman authorities saying they “must obey God rather than man”).

It can support killing those who disagree with you (God said “you shall not permit a sorceress to live”) or to love and pray for them (Jesus said “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”).

It can support intellectualism and reason (God said “come, let us reason together”) and blind faith (Jesus said “blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed”); family values (Paul says, “if anyone does not provide for his relatives … he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever”) and family hatred (Jesus says, “[whoever] does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters … cannot be my disciple.”); monogamy (Paul said “each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband”) and polygamy (God said “if [a man] takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food or her clothes…”).

It is the same with God. He is a forgiving God who “forgives iniquity, transgression and sin” and an unforgiving God who sends a flood to destroy everyone on earth and banishes anyone who does not believe in Jesus to everlasting torment in hell. He insists he is a just God, yet to prove his justice he cites his unjust practice of “visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” He is love itself, yet hated Esau from birth. This can go on.

Is it any wonder there are so many sects of Christianity that all disagree?
Because It was Written by Men

The Bible can support all these positions because it was written and changed by men throughout thousands of years. It is not, as Christians often claim, a cohesive, peaceful, loving, perfect, God-written treatise.

I am not denying that the Bible has many inspiring and morally uplifting stories and teachings — it does. But I also think we too often ignore or forget the dark side of the Bible.

I’m going to show you that side by looking at some of the stories from a different perspective. As we will see, Yahweh is not just the God of love and justice, but a God full of wrath and jealousy, who delights in acts that most of us — without the blinders of faith — would consider the height of evil.

MALE VS FEMALE ATM PROCDURES

MALE PROCEDURE:
1. Drive up to the cash machine
2. Put down your car window.
3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN.
4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.
5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.
6. Put window up.
7. Drive off.

FEMALE PROCEDURE
1. Drive up to cash machine.
2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine.
3. Set parking brake, put the window down.
4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card.
5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up.
6. Attempt to insert card into machine
7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.
8. Insert card
9. Reinsert card the right way.
10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.
11. Enter PIN.
12. Press cancel and reenter correct PIN.
13. Enter amount of cash required.
14. Check makeup in rear view mirror.
15. Retrieve cash and receipt.
16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside.
17. Write debit amount in cheque register and place receipt in back of chequebook.
18. Recheck makeup.
19. Drive forward 2 feet
20. Reverse back to cash machine.
21. Retrieve card.
22. Re-empty handbag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided.
23. Give dirty look to irate male driver waiting behind you.
24. Restart stalled engine and pull off.
25. Redial person on cell phone.
26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles.
27. Release Parking Brake

15 GOOD REASONS WHY ALCOHOL SHOULD BE SERVED IN OFFICES

1. It's an incentive to show up.
2. It leads to more honest communications.
3. It reduces complaints about low pay.
4. Employees tell management what they think, not what they want to hear.
5. It reduces accidents caused by bar-hoping and encourages car pooling.
6. Increase job satisfaction because if you have a bad job, you don't care.
7. It eliminates vacations because people would rather come to work.
8. It makes fellow employees look and sound better.
9. It makes the cafeteria food taste better.
10. Bosses are more likely to hand out raises when they are wasted.
11. Salary negotiations are a lot more profitable.
12. Employees work later since there's no longer a need to relax at the bar.
13. It makes everyone more open with their ideas.
14. Eliminates the need for employees to get drunk on their lunch break.
15. Employees no longer need coffee to sober up thus helps the company cut down on excessive employees such as the tea girl.

Black Man's Prayer...

Oh Lord we humble ourselves to you this day and ask you to forgive us our sins, although we have none. This is because it is not us who killed Jesus Christ, it was the whites. He was betrayed by white man, and they sold Him to another white man who ordered that He be beaten. It was the whites who even voted that He be crucified. The name of the betrayer was Judas Iscariot. We do not even have such names. We have the likes of: TIBAGWA, BYARUGABA, OGBANJE, OBAMA, MATHENGE, OWITI, KIBAKI, OYOMBO, MATAKWEI, MUKHULULI, MUGISHA, MARIGA, etc. We don't even know where Golgotha is, where He was Crucified. We only know how to go from MASINDI to KAMPALA and back. We have never been to any of the Bible cities. So, we could not in anyway be involved in the crucifixion of our Lord. if you do not believe us you could even watch the movie "PASSION OF CHRIST". There is no African there. Please Lord: Let Africans be rich and the white man work for them. AMEN.

Another Day Another .50 cents

Q: Why are condoms transparent?
A: So that sperms can at least enjoy the scene even if their entry is Restricted!

Signboard outside a prostitute's house:Married MEN not allowed. We serve the needy, not the greedy...

New AIDS awareness slogan:Try different positions with the same woman instead of same position with different women.

Why is $ex like shaving?Well, because no matter how well you do it today... tomorrow you'll have to do it again...

Q: What will happen if earth rotates 30 times faster?
A: Men will get their salary everyday and women will bleed to death.

Q: Why do 90% gals have left boob bigger than right?
A: Bcoz 90% boys are right handed.

Q: What is the difference between a PANTY & a STAGE CURTAIN?
A: When you pull down the STAGE CURTAIN, the show is over, but when you pull down the PANTY..... it is SHOWTIME!

Q: What is the similarity between a wife and a chewing gum?
A: Both are sweet in the beginning but become tasteless and shapeless laterAdvantages of having an affair with a married woman.They give like hell.They do not yell.They do not tell.They do not swell and there is no wedding bell!

My dad told me that if Adam and Eve were Chinese, we would be still in Paradise .
Why?Because they would have eaten the snake instead of the bloody apple!

USA 2- Spain 0

USA 2- Spain 0 that was shoking defeat to the spanish !
who would have thought about that moreso we are waiting on the final against Brazil..
My Money is on Brazil...

Micheal Jackson is dead this YES for REAL.
At the age 50,

I feel so BAD. I want to SCREAM. It's like I lost ANOTHER PART OF ME. Why did you have to BEAT IT so soon? Just another sign that stress is DANGEROUS. Someone needs to HEAL THE WORLD. WHO IS IT going to take to fill your shoes? You kept on saying LEAVE ME ALONE and we gave you hell, forgive us but that's HUMAN NATURE. R.I.P Michael you Rocked MY WORLD.

On the local scene Today's mbuzi is on me so if you can make it to Nyahururu Sports Club..See You there lol

Enuff said TGIF...

Big Business e.g. EABL & Keroche

But let's start with the real rot in the society ergo the product of the current parliament !

Personally I don't consume alcohol after 20 years..
(personal preference)but I'm big on independence of business in Kenya in general. As Businessman I believe strongly in diversity for strength.
EABL has products like alvaro,malta-guiness which my family consume in volumes. Don't forget next to Safaricom, EABL remits a lot to the Exchequer. This is an industry we cannot overlook or underestimate..
Keroche on the other hand is an equal partner in the development of Kenyan owned business (s) also a contributor to the Exchequer.
My final point is the more the merrier..be blessed.