Why does God hate so much?

''Why God should hate anybody.''

''I hated Esau'' Malachi 1:3

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This ever benevolent [sic] god kills Canaanites in Joshua 6:


The city and and everything in it must be completely destroyed as an offering to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and the others in her house will be spared, for she protected our spies.(Verse 17)

They completely destroyed everything in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, donkeys - everything. (Verse 21)

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And we all know it was he who 'hardened the heart of the Pharaoh' in order to justify killing his people.

Man at least eat the bloody livestock.

Romans 12:2

This is why Christians are poor representatives of their faith; and why people in general are poor representatives of their species.

The God you have is the God you'd like to be. The freaks of history figured you out and gave you exactly that and declared themselves your humble masters. Have fun.

Death is the ultimate reward and the actual meaning of life. Our sole purpose for living is to die, get buried, and fertilllize the soil so some other life-form can grow.

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Originally Posted by osho

Death is the end or beginning is yet to be explored. You cannot say what death is and your conclusion is based on what medical science has said and science is still in its infancy when it comes to explaining some of the profound truths.

Death is an unknown domain and you do not the zone you will visit after it.
Do not confuse yourself with the nonsense you have inherited in society through education or learning from your near and dear ones.

Go beyond these delimiting parameters to understand your limitless powers.

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Death is the reason for Life, and the Ultimate Reward for living it. The sole purpose of Life is that we will die, get buried, and fertillize the soil so some other pointless life-form can grow in our stead. It is a cycle, to which Man, being relatively new, has no purpose or role to play except the destruction of other species. (and, if he's lucky, the entire planet.)

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Originally Posted by G L Wilson

Is God the ultimate bigot?

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Apparently He/She's only been in this mood since The X-Factor started! :angelsad2:

Who would be so dense as to claim that God does not exist? How is God not going to exist when it is absolutely obvious it does not occur in three dimensions. That would be the same as saying that the infinitude of two-dimensional imageries do not exist. You would not shake hands with something in three-dimensions and call it God. It would be insane. Anything that doesn't occur in three dimensions could be a God if anyone so disposes. You might think I'm making an atheist statement. Ridiculous. Where has theism been more abundant than in the imaginary two-dimensions of a turtle, a dragon, or anything sacred. Can people from earth be called Gods? Of course, so long as it's not Mr. Wilson, next door and, in particular, he's not watering the lawn and saying hello.

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Originally Posted by cafolini

Who would be so dense as to claim that God does not exist? How is God not going to exist when it is absolutely obvious it does not occur in three dimensions. That would be the same as saying that the infinitude of two-dimensional imageries do not exist. You would not shake hands with something in three-dimensions and call it God. It would be insane. Anything that doesn't occur in three dimensions could be a God if anyone so disposes. You might think I'm making an atheist statement. Ridiculous. Where has theism been more abundant than in the imaginary two-dimensions of a turtle, a dragon, or anything sacred. Can people from earth be called Gods? Of course, so long as it's not Mr. Wilson, next door and, in particular, he's not watering the lawn and saying hello.

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Hmm... I'm not quite sure where you're going with this - but for a start it can't really be any more 'dense' to claim that a God doesn't exist than to claim that a God does exist can it? (Of course - I, like you, only have experience of a three dimentional world, whatever relevance that may have!) Care to expand?

Like the righteous man described by Plato, the closer is one with the form and perfection, the further one is to harmful and unholy things. Do you hate immorality? Do you despite injustice? Do you try to live apart from unethical acts? If you then, an imperfect being, can hate these things, then how more hatred would you think God has for those things assuming he's perfect?

Also this question might call for a literary analysis. What do "love" or "hate" mean? What causes the characters to think the decrees are divine? Were the commands made by God at all or were the people just used God as a justification? What do these characters and these events may reveal about the colorful characters of God?

This question might also requires various theological and philosophical dispositions, depending on what faith you belong to. Since we are in a literature forum let just stick with the literary stuff.