Because god is a delusion used as a means of social control and as an excuse for violence.
I was raised Hindu and omg this is so evident. Dharma and karma are essential in the faith. Dharma outlines your roles and responsibilities in life. Basically, you’re born poor because of your past karma. You deserve to be poor. So don’t overstep your boundaries and stay in your lane. And let the rich and powerful walk all over you because they are more deserving.
Man, amazing how a lot of religions align with letting the rich be douchebags.
I’m not religious. But I’m pretty sure they would say that we are created in his image.
So, if we have emotions. I don’t think it’s beyond reason that god might have them as well.
And holy shit these comments are insufferable. This isnt about your personal vendetta against religion, just answer the god damn question.
If a deity like the Judeo Christian god is real, the reason they have emotion is we have emotion so early people would tie their emotions to them and think they have it as well. Something bad happens and it has to be god being angry and punishing them, because that was the only explanation they had.
Or vanity. “I’m gonna need y’all to show up once a week to tell me how awesome I am”
Because we created god in our image
The main idea is that books like Bible and Quran were sent to humanity so they are made for humans of the time.
The “anger” isn’t supposed to be a literal anger, just how humans identify what happened.
For example most verses about wrath follow with curse or punishment etc, so maybe “wrath” is just what humans call it when God curses or punishes people; and it’s not a literal feeling of anger.
There was a similar debate with how some verses say God heard/saw “humans were doing [insert thing]…” etc in the books.
Less relevant info.
Also in the case of Islam for example, different branches and even sects have different popular interpretations.
I know one Sufi theologist saying “All creatures were made to reflect God’s light” so they might call it “What our own emotions were modeled after, and are distorted versions of?”
Then there is Ahl al-Ra’y (Mainly followers of Maturidism today) who see Hadith as “uncredible” so they usually have slightly different views on most stuff. But I am not religious enough to learn theology that far.
To be omnipotent first need to exist. If don’t exist then anything after is nonsense, therefore can be portrayed as wild as author’s imagination is.
Because it’s nonsense created by humans. Humans came up with these stories, of course they anthropomorphized their deity.
As much as I agree with the premise, I think you kid yourself when you don’t look at the power structure. While in the earliest of times you could definitely blame the entire race, I’d rather concentrate on the current situation.
As St George the Carlin asked, if God is all powerful, why does he need money?
“If God is all-powerful, can he make a rock so heavy even he can’t lift it?”
The Class Clown album was the beginning of the end of my Catholicism
Because the shit that makes you feel all powerful doesn’t come cheap!
All written accounts of God are produced by humans for an audience of other humans.
In the same way that we might describe a storm cloud as “angry” or a sunny day as “cheerful”, one might apply emotional descriptors to an omnipotent divine force in order to personify an impersonal and abstract entity.
Past that, assuming you believe that a divine being is above humanity, why wouldn’t they have emotions? Emotions are a feature of sentience and God is supposed to be a super-sentient creature. If anything, it would experience these emotions more intensely and intricately than its creations. The human rage of a shout or the despair of a cry becomes the earth-splitting eruption of a volcano or the suffocating deluge of a flood.
At the same time, it is the overwhelming longing for companionship that drives a God to form life from the void of space. The intense joy in the creative act leads this fundamental superhuman force to tirelessly build an entire universe. The deep and profound pride and love which brings them among their creations clothed in their own form, willing to endure the humiliation of this avatar form in order to enlighten and elevate their divine progeny to their own level.
Absent these primal emotional urges, why would a God choose to be a God at all, and not simply languish within the darkness for eternity, content to the echoing silence of dead space?
Humans anthropomorphize pretty much everything around us with varying levels of accuracy. I’m fairly certain that my dog and cat feel anger and love in a very similar way to the way I do. I’m pretty sure plants really don’t, but they might a little bit more than a storm cloud. However you apply that to your spirituality or your perception of that of others is going to be a highly personal experience for you.
God does not exist - and even if they do exist, they have about as much consideration for the human race as we as a species have for paramecium
Sounds like you want God how they’re portrayed in Druze: The Druze conception of the deity is declared by them to be one of strict and uncompromising unity. The main Druze doctrine states that God is both transcendent and immanent, in which he is above all attributes, but at the same time, he is present.[188]
In their desire to maintain a rigid confession of unity, they stripped from God all attributes (tanzīh). In God, there are no attributes distinct from his essence. He is wise, mighty, and just, not by wisdom, might, and justice, but by his own essence. God is “the whole of existence”, rather than merely “above existence” or on his throne, which would make him “limited”. There is neither “how”, “when”, nor “where” about him; in this way, he is incomprehensible.
Don’t forget jealousy!
It’s all fictional, it can be whatever you want
