God as parenting authority

People often like to invoke the concept of a God to reinforce the virtues of obedience to blind authority.

For example, some priests, due to ideological reasons, would rather not supply condoms to African populations to protect against AIDS infection.

When they say that God is punishing those that come down with AIDS, this is what they're saying:

"I want only the obedient individuals who submit to my perception of my God's demand for abstinence to survive. I would rather the obvious solution (condoms), which allows promiscuity and is effective protection against AIDS not exist. I'd prefer to kill off those promiscuous ones, to punish them on behalf of my God, because I desire to live in a society which does not tolerate maximal sexual freedom for humans"

There are parents, too, who'd prefer to see their child come to serious harm in order for their child to learn some ideological 'lesson' rather than to just take measures to prevent that child being harmed

Religious people say the darndest things

"When you have a secular society, you have the rapists and the muggers and the family breakers"
- Religious man aggravated at secular society's emphasis on sex, materialism
" I regard evolution to be the greatest menace to civilsation in the world today. It goes hand in hand with modernism; makes Jesus Christ a faker; robs the Christian of his hope and undermines the foundation of our "government of the people, for the people and by the people". People are free in this country to worshop God as they please, but they are not free to do everything the devil wants done.
What the fuck?

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Stop calling God Daddy. Especially in rap songs.