Letting His People Go
So, when I was a kid and being dutifully raised to believe the cracker jack of the Bible, one of my favorite stories to hear was the plight of the Children of Israel in the land of Egypt and how the Lord God made all of these really wonderful miracles (for the most part in the form of plagues) in order to free His people.
What happened with the ten plagues of Egypt? What were the exact plagues visited upon the people of Egypt? And another thing, why does God always seem to lean to the terrible in His efforts to prove to those who do not believe in Him that He is real? You would think He would simply show Himself and get it over with instead of playing tricks and killing things in an effort to show His supposedly awesome power.
Sure there are miracles in the Bible, many of them the most terrible things ever, but you cannot help but to laugh at the supposed miracles of doom as you listen to Robin Williams describe it all. Soooo funny!
Precisely as this man suggests, the many miracles in the Bible that prove (or that are supposed to prove God) are terrible. Why would the great love of the universe try to prove itself by use of terrible miracles? That proves nothing save for the God of the Bible is a thug who loves to torture those who don't care for Him or His truly absurd and terrible policies of so-called judgment.
So, God wants his people freed and appears to a guy in the for of a burning bush. Why wouldn't God pick something a little more believeable...like appearing as a person? And why doesn't God ever do something for Himself, right? If He wants something done and if He wants something done right why doesn't he do it Himself? Why get people to do all of this shit? And why have so much suffering on order to get what He wants? I'm just saying...
You can always count on some explanation or other from Hollywood! I love this scene.
While the Bible generally does not jibe with science and any other of the evidence science provides as to the non-existence of God, anytime the Bible and proponents of the Bible find that science just might be helpful in proving their stories of delusion...well hell...they jump right up and take whatever they can and twist that science they have found in an effort to prove theories of a big, bad, angry God and His actual existence. Then they jump up and down and clap their hands with glee as they shout "I told you so" and point to the existence of God. Whatever.
