Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me

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You argue like a child GB. I'm not above arguing like one too, when the occasion calls: What do you know about the link between Gnostic Christian thought and the National Socialists of Germany? Does that reflect poorly on your faith? Are you guys Nazis lololol?

Won't this mentality create elitism? "If I think you are not worthy of God's grace then why should I treat you with respect?"or something of that nature.

You say I argue like a child, while not showing what you are referring to, and while ignoring the simple request I made for you to show what exactly you were claiming in terms of objective morals, and you answer by trying to link Gnostic Christians and myself, I guess, to Nazis.

Who be the child here, child?

Regards
DL

There is no point continuing. You do not even want to understand Christians, Christianity or the history of Christendom.
My final comment on this: There is a link between Gnosticism and the Nazis, there was a revival around the time and it is said to have influenced Hitler's thoughts as much as Nietzsche. While it was partly because the Cathars hated Jews about as much as they did, it was mainly because Gnosticism puts man above God. When man is the being who decides what is moral and righteous, man can and will twist it to his liking, just as they did. That is why it is inferior to any belief system that takes morality out of reach of men's hands.

While God is considered to be a person he is also very, very, different from us. I would expect that being infinite leads to a somewhat different way of thinking than a finite human would have.
Those neat little categories are an invention of finite humans. How an infinite being would categorize things I'm not going to try to guess.
That the nuclear family is considered "natural" for humans is independent of what animals do - animals are not humans.

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I'm not figuring out what you are getting at there. That God can scratchbuild life is often not part of what people conclude either accurately or mistakenly.
I don't recall the Bible much if, at all, addressing the matter of extinction beyond being connected to the flood event and preservation of those species.
And that a species goes extinct when all are killed is a logical cause and effect, that's the expected result.

Why not? God apparently set up most life to work with DNA, and if you are a Satan wanting to corrupt God's creation then you pretty much have to work with the processes which happen in that creation.

Christians or other religious that do not recognize that and the fact that their laws are man made are showing how stupid they are.

Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer.

Someone who does not have the will or intellectual capacity to even begin to understand this concept, should not be calling other people stupid.

What you "expect" from God, or God to be, will not always correlate with what God actually is. It is only extreme hubris that would compel a person to say, "According to my line of reasoning and expectations, God should have done this and that, and be like this, and shouldn't be so wasteful, and should value efficiency, and be tolerant of gays, and be progressive, and value what I personally value. Since He (or She or It, if you prefer) doesn't meet my expectations and requirements, I will choose to ridicule and dismiss Him/Her/It".

Have I summed up your attitude accurately?

Of course. Let's not "bother" looking into anything at all we either don't agree with or do not understand. That would actually require a bit of work on our part, and we're just too damned lazy for that. Why are atheists so consistently anti-intellectual? Why are they so afraid to have their nihilistic bubble burst? Why are they so afraid of the truth?

Modern-day atheists, with their lame arguments, make me want to do this -

Regards!

There is no point continuing. You do not even want to understand Christians, Christianity or the history of Christendom.
My final comment on this: There is a link between Gnosticism and the Nazis, there was a revival around the time and it is said to have influenced Hitler's thoughts as much as Nietzsche. While it was partly because the Cathars hated Jews about as much as they did, it was mainly because Gnosticism puts man above God. When man is the being who decides what is moral and righteous, man can and will twist it to his liking, just as they did. That is why it is inferior to any belief system that takes morality out of reach of men's hands.

morality is ALWAYS in men's hands.

In the reductivist sense, yes. But it's the difference between writing rules on mile-high tablets of stone and giving each man a piece of paper and a pen to write his own rules. One system will be much more susceptible to corruption by the whims of the moment (which is not to say the other is immune).
Here we are living in a fairly secular society that says that not only that killing babies is not wrong, but it's a moral good because we don't want more poor people around. To add icing to the cake, having justified such heinous acts, the moralists will often scoff at the idea of anyone needing a commandment not to commit murder. Welcome to the land of pen and paper.

fetuses are NOT babies.

How convenient. Murderers always dehumanise their victims.