• OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
      15·
      7 days ago

      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.

  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
    92·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • itisileclerk@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago

    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.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • Stamau123@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 days ago

    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.

  • Strider@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    Religion does not and never made any logical sense.

    (this does not mean it does not have any / also positive use for societies)

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    6 days ago

    Who told you God is omnipotent and above humans? Who told you he or she has emotions, or smites or becomes upset or wrathful?

    Any God worth naming as such is so beyond such concepts as to be entirely inscrutable. It’s people that ascribe such characteristics, usually to influence other people. In any case, it comes from an inclination to anthropomorphize the unknown, to rationalize non-human phenomena through a familiar human lens. The conflict isn’t in God, it’s in God’s self-appointed biographers.