Kathanda Wittoward

A certain blogger has suggested that the Bible is 'the thinking man's filter' Im going to go out on a limb here and assume he meant to say that the bible is the thinking person's filter. I disagree. One would have to close off the mind entirely to buy some of that nonsense. Dont get me wrong. I beleive in God. I can't not. And I pray, i cant help it, its like a bad habit... But the Bible? Come on? Its freaking scary. It gives me nightmares people! I like the new testament a lot. (minus revelation obviously) but the old testament is just depressing. How could a God who is supposed to Be Love.... have such a low regard for human life? the constant stonings ofwhole families, the killing of entire nations, the poor freaking Canaanites for Christ's sake. And Galt, dont you dare respond to this with something immature and hurtful because this means a hell of a lot to me. Ive spent a long time trying to convince myself to believe this. Parochial education, sunday school, church camp, bible studies, catholicism, protestantism, nondenominationalism, .. ive tried em all. As nice as some of the people are, its all based on a very scary God slaughtering people with a little reprive while He waits for the final judgement where "the angel set his sickle to work on the earth and harvested the whole vintage of the earth and put it into a huge winepress, the winepress of God's anger, outside the city, where it was trodden until the blood that came out of the windpress was up to the horses bridles as far as sixteen hundred furlongs. . . Then I saw the beast with all the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to fight the Rider and his army . . All the rest were killed by the sword of the of the rider which came out of his mouth. and the birds glutted themselves with their flesh." Now, there are a lot of christians who hope that Revelation (including the above quote) was just a really bad nightmare that John had... but you cant forget about the old testament people. How about the Flood ? Oooh heres a great story: 2 Kings 2:23-25. The prophet Elisha is called a 'baldy' by a bunch of children, so he curses them in the name of God and two bears come out of the woods and savage them.
Please comment, but from the heart poeple. Dont recite your sunday school teacher's bullshit, because I PROMISE IVE HEARD IT! And Ive taken theology people, I knwo about the Theory of Progressive Revelation and all that but I just cant reconcile it.
It may sound elementary to some people, but it will never be reconciled in a truly thinking mind, why a "good" God would create people just to kill them and send them to hell.