He was the very worst Heretic of the early church. The early church
fathers all wrote against him, he was excommunicated in 145 AD. They managed to
lose all his writings, so awful were his views.
The Yahweh God of the Old Testament was Evil - that was his terrible heresy. Marcion referred to the Old Testament God as, "the creator of evils, lustful for war, inconstant in his attitude, and self-contradictory." He viewed the "god of the Jews" as capricious, cruel, judgmental and vindictive.
He was right, of course. Here for example, is Yahweh explaining the tactics of deception, with His normal ethics of mass murder, theft, despoilation of others culture and property, Deuteronomy 20:
Christians need to bite the bullet and accept the judgement of the atheist Richard Dawkins:When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them…
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Totally! His rituals are all drenched in blood. One keeps turning the pages of the OT to see who is going to be bumped off next, and by what macabre deaths.Racial supremacism:
Deuteronomy 28:1, “the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth” and at 28:10, “And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee” and “the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath. . .”
Isaiah 60:11-12: “Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the wealth of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Jesus’ View
The world needs a dualistic Christian church. Have you ever heard a vicar discussing the thunderous words of J.C. on the Pharisees, who were the OT specialists of his day, reported in the gospels? Surely not!
“You Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness,” (Luke 11:39)
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it,” (John 8:44)
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor alllow those who would enter to go in. woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.’
”Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.. you serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?” (Matthew 23:13 27, 33).
The scribes were the people writing the OT, the Pharisees were those who taught it.
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No Evil Creator
There is a marvellous optimism in the first chapter of Genesis, where the Elohim keep seeing that their work ‘is good’ through the seven Days of creation. It was composed in Alexandria and has nothing to do with the dark, brooding presence of Yahweh.
Let us restore the lovely OT names of God - El-Shaddai, Elohim, Adonai, Yah-weh. Then we could at last have an informed discussion of the subject.
Of Light and Darkness
Christianity will continue to be a destructive force in our world, as long as it worships an evil god. It needs to accept the Marcianite duality or something like it. The OT is far longer than the New, and however glorious JC’s teachings may be, in practice the political world allows psychopathic killers to rise to the top, who will always resonate to the OT ethics. These warrant the Final Battle, sparing no victims (unless Yahweh is in a good mood, and you’re allowed to keep the young virgins…)
Yahweh is the only god who tells His chosen people to lend money with interest to others, the goyim, but not to fellow-Hebrews (Deuteronomy).
It is recorded that Marcion alluded to the OT god as saying, I make peace, and create evil... (Isaiah, 45) Let’s compare this frank admission with Ezekiel, where Yahweh confesses to the evil laws and ruinous commandments He has given:
(note the child-sacrifice allusion) Or again Jeremiah, ““for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction… Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon this place that the ears of every one who hears of it will tingle. ”.(4:6, 19:3) – He certainly did that! Yahweh could not resist devising wicked, evil schemes: ‘Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword which I am sending among them.’“I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes and keep my judgements, and do them….Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgements to do them…. then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness….Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good and judgements whereby they should not live; And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.” (20:24-26)
The Evil OT God affirmed, “anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the Lord” (Leviticus 27:28). For example, “They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it – man and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.(Josh 6:21) The OT has always held a special attraction for psychopathic killers.
Finally, Yahweh breaks His promises or Covenant, with His usual loathsome curses:
The
flock detested me, and I grew weary of them and said, “I will not be
your shepherd. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish. Let those who
are left eat one another’s flesh.” Then I took my staff called
Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I had made with all the
nations. (Zech. 11:9-10)
Jeremiah
alluded to: "'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law
of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it
falsely? (8:8) – The words written down by the scribes are lies,
Jeremiah was saying.
Has
the world not heard enough, of Christians pretending that the OT expresses the
being of a benevolent deity? Is it not time for them to try and comprehend the
fundamental duality and mysterious struggle between light and darkness in the
world in which we live?
http://www.deism.com/neoconsbible.htmChurch Reading
At the St Michael's church I go to, here was the OT reading for today (16 Nov 2014) (Zephaniah 1: 7,12-18):
How can people not realize that this is an evil god, one who raged on endlessly about destruction, mass murder - and theft ('their goods shall become a booty')?
Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil. Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof. The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
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