There are some really tough people out there. In fiction, we have people who are even tougher. There are heroes and villains who singlehandedly take on multiple adversaries and triumph.
There are also many examples of people who use teams of bodyguards, armies, or other groups of protectors. They may talk tough, but they need a lot of help/
For those who believe in a god, what is your god like? Does this god need to be protected from insults? From bad theology? From transgressions of god's law?
If so, what does that say about your god? Why does god need you for protection?
Whenever we punish others for saying or doing something we believe our god doesn't want, or for demeaning our god, or for misinterpreting what god says, I have to wonder how weak and vulnerable we are imagining our god to be. Maybe instead we are defending ourselves and our own understandings of god, because we are too weak and vulnerable to allow competing thoughts.
There are also many examples of people who use teams of bodyguards, armies, or other groups of protectors. They may talk tough, but they need a lot of help/
For those who believe in a god, what is your god like? Does this god need to be protected from insults? From bad theology? From transgressions of god's law?
If so, what does that say about your god? Why does god need you for protection?
Whenever we punish others for saying or doing something we believe our god doesn't want, or for demeaning our god, or for misinterpreting what god says, I have to wonder how weak and vulnerable we are imagining our god to be. Maybe instead we are defending ourselves and our own understandings of god, because we are too weak and vulnerable to allow competing thoughts.
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