God Of Death: A Rightful Atheism
When someone asks a christian why an omnipotent, omnipresent, all good creator God doesn’t come down and fix all our problems and end evil, the person is making assumptions in that question that I would rather answer than the question itself.
They often picture God as a “god”, with the world outside himself, who imposes his will on something fundamentally contrary to himself, much like the US in its superpower status, or Superman in Injustice, or even “the presence” of DC comics.
If that is the God of Christianity, then I am an atheist, and rightly so, such a being doesn’t deserve devotion if this world is what it spawned. Any “omnipotence” of such a being is fundamentally destructive, as it is a Nihilism of a particularly modern flavor.
Any “omnipresence” of such a being is simply spatial dilution or extension. Taken together it exists simply as another force in the world, a tyrant of immense power and will, simply superseding all others by sheer force.
It also assumes evil is this sort of “thing” that can be thrown away like a product we don’t want anymore, rather than a shadow of turning that affects everyone and everything in this world, a parasite that infects us all, that requires more than external sanctions to end. A “god” who simply ends evil by imposing his will like a hammer on our heads will destroy us all, and sounds more like what we call a Satan.
If that’s the God we say we worship, something is wrong. We don’t worship a Zeus with powers like a programmer does over his code, we worship the God of Jesus Christ, whose power is of a fundamentally different kind, a true power rather than mere control.
Appendix: I have posted this before, a while ago, but it didn’t come out well, so I made some changes. This was originally a Twitter thread, but I also realized it would make a great post named “God of Death”, which may have future installments. It’s disturbing when you realize popular depictions of God (which many assume is Christian) look nothing like Jesus of Nazareth, but more like either Zeus or Morgan Freeman. Hence these posts (If it becomes a series of posts) will be about this “god” and will end with his contrast with the God of Jesus Christ.