Name: "Might Makes Right" Fuels Authoritarianism
Uploaded: 2025-12-30T10:14:32.000Z
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Whenever I have conversations with Christians about God's power and his perfect nature, as they call it, I'll bring up all of the atrocities committed and commanded by God in the Bible.

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Things like punishing two people for eating a piece of fruit when they had no knowledge of what could really happen if they ate it.

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And then punishing all of humanity because of those two people eating a piece of fruit.

Or what about when God commanded his people to march up to all of their neighbors and to make them a peace offering.

And if they accept the peace offering, to enslave them all, to force them to be your slave.

And if they refuse, then to just slaughter them and kill everyone.

What about Noah's flood, when God drowns the entire world, he drowns humans and babies and animals and kills everything because he was just so mad about the way they turned out.

Even though he's God and He knows everything and knows the future and already knows how they're going to turn out.

And if a human being did these things, if a human being commanded you to go up and kill pregnant women and kill babies, then we would call that a war crime.

We would say you're evil and we'd lock you up.

But when God does it, it's easily dismissible.

Like you can just shrug it off and say, well, that's God.

You don't get to judge his character or his morality because he's in charge and you're not.

On the contrary, who are you, O man who answers back to God?

Because God is in charge, no matter what he does, it's good.

So it kind of makes the concept of morality and ethics completely pointless.

Because if we can't look at something and decide that it is good or bad because that something is more powerful than we are, then we're not actually exercising any kind of morality or referencing our ethics.

And this worldview, this idea of God, it extends beyond the church.