Conservative Christians in the US hate abortion and will blindly support anybody who opposes it because they want their rapist God to rape another woman who was miraculously born without original sin so that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ can happen and the world can be ended as predicted in their Bible's book of Revelation.

They need to be told on a daily basis that they and their rapist God should GO FUCK THEMSELVES with a nice thick chunk of rusty rebar.

Why do I say the Judeo-Christian God is a rapist? Simple: incarnating yourself in a woman's body so that you can sacrifice yourself to yourself without a woman's consent is rape.

And there's no way that you, as God, can ask a mortal woman to consent because the power differential between a mortal woman not piloting an Evangelion prototype and God is so great that any statement of consent on the woman's part is meaningless.

@starbreaker while i agree that the skydaddy the institutional church promotes is def a rapist, as a christian, i disagree with your reading of luke’s gospel and the possibility of mary consenting. the conception myth was 1. to make the story appealing to people in a greco-roman context and 2. to differentiate the conception of Jesus from the conception of the Divine Emperors.

also, the idea of jesus being a sacrifice to satisfy the wrath of god is not and has not been universal

@starbreaker the conception myth was also meant to serve as a bridge between the Hebrew stories of the barren woman being miraculously granted children and the Greco-Roman traditions of godmen and angelic mediators. mary’s conception of jesus should be read in that context as well as in conjunction with the story of her relative Elizabeth in the chapters preceding. A man who questions God is rendered silent, and the narrative is handed over to two women.

@starbreaker now i guess someone could respond that it’s a story of women being reproductive vessels. i think it’s good to challenge the myths and destroy idols. but i also think “Mary was raped she could not have consented because of a power differential” is based on a conception of God that I don’t believe in based on how I’ve read the Prophets and the Gospel

@catzaddy That's fine, but the only god in which I believe is Lemmy, and he's been dead a couple of years now.

As such, I look at the way most USian Christians act and I can't tell if their God is really God, and a god of love, or if they're actually worshiping Moloch or that lying angel Mastema mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Jubilees.

And, frankly, I don't give a damn. If they had the decency to keep their bullshit religion away from the government, I wouldn't have a beef with them.