religion-is-a-mental-illness: Deuteronomy 30:15-16See, I have set before thee this day life and good
religion-is-a-mental-illness: Deuteronomy 30:15-16See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiplyMatthew 22:36-38Master, which is the great commandment in the law?Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.This is the first and great commandment.Mark 12:29-30And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.Luke 10:26-28He [Jesus] said unto him [a certain lawyer], What is written in the law? how readest thou?And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.Commanded, obligatory love, enforced with the threat of damnation, is the highest priority.A good god…would know that love is given, not taken.wouldn’t need to command good people to love it - they just would.wouldn’t be angered by those who didn’t - it would love them anyway.wouldn’t prize the love of bad people to the point of absolving their crimes by simply flattering it.Needing the love of humans at all makes it imperfect, regardless.No matter how you cut it up, this is a god not worth knowing. Or loving. It’s the prototype abusive boyfriend. -- source link