If Hell (probably an outdated notion) however if it exists then we have a very vengeful God.
Indeed, the moral
complexity of revenge becomes evident once we try to imagine a God who is not
vengeful – what would he or she be doing with their time?
If I worship a god who claims
vengeance as his own then I am as vengeful as he is.
It is our complicity, our mutual endorsement, of this that is rife with disturbing implication.
I mean why would anyone want to worship – or even admire – a God who took
pride in his punishments?
What is authority, or supernatural power if it is constituted by a freedom
to punish?
Some may hold the view that God is right because he punishes,
You’ve got to be cruel to be kind - in God's way we learn from the disaters that beset us, great,
but is it not more simply that the case with a vengeful God is that you have to be cruel to be cruel?
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