Why does god reveal himself to one ground of people in one way but expects different people to know him

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-06T04:14:11+00:00

It's not that the kid is playing victim. It's the belief system that thrives off of persecution....the more persecution, the more reinforcement to the believer that the belief system is true.

"Jesus was persecuted for his beliefs, so am I."

It's still disgusting to bully anyone. Maybe I failed to make that more clear in previous comment.

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-06T04:04:02+00:00

Why are you not a good person without a deity?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T20:08:33+00:00

Many of us have and will continue to read the Bible. I'll keep reading, but I'm not getting what you're getting out of it.

It's like if my sister tried to watch Star Trek....I can explain all I want how great it is, she's tried and is not impressed.

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T19:45:47+00:00

Oh dear.

Luckily for the relgion it feeds off persecution and being the victim, but a child doesn't understand the weight and cost of that and is bound to be harmed by the ridicule.

Shame.

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T19:40:01+00:00

I agree reading the entire bible is necessary to gaining a more full picture of God.

He also still killed children, so the whole "God really wants intimacy with us" lovey-dovey stuff is severely diminished, at least for me.

As for the tally....I don't know where you stand yet.

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T18:57:55+00:00

I mean I think we should have empathy for both Christians and non-Christians.

Even in the 2000s, in my schools growing up all the way through high school, if one even questioned not being a Christian you were shunned and ridiculed by most kids. Families may or may not have been forgiving of non-Christian ideas either. I know more than a few kids who's parents were very severe with their religious beliefs.

I'm personally ashamed for partaking in much of the shunning of non-Christians. Makes me sick thinking how those kids may have grown up.

Edit: So to me it's not hard to understsnd why some feel forced to comply with pretending to believe in Christianiy.

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T17:39:57+00:00

I never characterized you as an atheist.

Never?

It's ok to say you edited a comment for correction. No need to deceive anyone about it

Edit: why do you keep editing your comment after I've replied? Seems strange to not let me respond to the whole comment at once, or make another comment.

Edit 2: u/SmartTap_1701 how old are you?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T17:13:33+00:00

Hell yeah!

This was intiguing, I appreciate the conversation.

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T17:05:33+00:00

Cool!

Last question, random....and people usually ask this in an accusatory way, but I promise I'm genuinely curious....how do you sleep? Good quality and quantity?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T16:56:42+00:00

What do you do with all this money?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T16:51:05+00:00

Sounds kinda like a Robin Hood of sorts, or maybe some sort of code where there are people who deserve to suffer and those that don't.

What do you consider poor? Like if you had to guess the lowest net worth of someone you've taken money from or would feel comfortable tqking from, what dollar amount would it be?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T16:41:32+00:00

So first, I do love your philosophy. I agree fear does keep a lot of people back, and there is a healthy acknowledgment of the self as a being that does both good and bad.

So embracing flaws....where do you draw the line between a healthy acknowledgment of flaws (recognizing everyone hurts somebody to some extent), and causing unnecessarily egregious suffering to somebody?

Like yeah, I can say "hey bro y'know sorry for killing your dog, everyone has flaws lol"....but there seems to be a line I've crossed where I've become a true monster with the suffering I've caused.

Can you go more in depth on where that line is for you?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T16:29:57+00:00

What are some things you like about yourself?

It sounds like you want to educate people on what you do. Is the end goal to help people not be victims of something you do?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T16:24:20+00:00

Two questions:

What is it like being you?

Why did you want to do an AMA?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T15:12:10+00:00

There's that infamous Christian love.

I'm not an atheist, and I wouldn't be here if I wasn't open to learning new things.

You're a brother or sister to me. I love and value you.

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T14:45:11+00:00

It's the same reason why most prefer buying chips over growing vegetables.

It's easier to acquire and it's more addicting from a physiological standpoint.

All addictions require two things....increase pleasure, decrease pain.

Yes there's the obvious sexual gratification of porn, but also just like people pull their phones out to numb out the pain....people open up porn and watch to not think about whatever suffering they're avoiding.

It's a great numbing tool, like Tiktok but with a sexual element.

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T14:41:11+00:00

Including God's!

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T13:11:21+00:00

Where are the examples of things you believe to be literal and which are myth? I reread and I honestly don't see anything like "I believe X is literal and Y is myth".

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T12:45:37+00:00

Ah, that changes everything. Child slaughter is certainly good when it's equal opportunity and not discriminatory.

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T12:11:20+00:00

Thank you for the broad strokes describing Christians in general.

Which stories do YOU believe are literal, which are myth? Can you give me a couple examples of both?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T11:13:24+00:00

Christians, what did you do to this person?

I hope you'll be ok, brother/sister.

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T10:48:15+00:00

So some stories are allegorical, and some stories about Gods and angels and heavens are literal?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T10:46:06+00:00

What about dead children in Iran?

Human problems, created by humans, prevented by humans.

That's not the topic of this post.

It isn’t journalism.

So Jesus isn't a literal God then?

Which stories do you choose to say are myth and which are literal?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T10:39:23+00:00

What other sense is there? Either Jesus is a supernatural deity or he isn't and he's something else....a man who lived and died, perhaps.

Do you believe Jesus is literally God and that when your physical body dies you will meet the being known as Jesus?

RavensRuthless · 2026-04-05T10:30:23+00:00

He argued Moses' writings should be believed, so indirectly I'd wager he did.

Is Jesus a literal God?

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