re: What do people get out of going to church on Easter once a year?

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Actually, thats the kind of love God demands from us in the bible. He requires us to turn the other cheek and pray for those who spit on us (figuratively of course).

To then turn around and punch us in the face for eternity for spiting on him seems a bit hypocritical.

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Yes, God demands us to "turn the other cheek" because only God has the authority to judge and condemn that person. We should not seek retaliation because that is God's job (to punish the wicked), not ours. I have no problem with God being able to do some things that we (His creation) are allowed/supposed to do. That's the very nature of the creator/creature distinction.

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You have a very sick and twisted view of the world, so much so that even most christians would reprimand you for saying something like this.

What a complete monster of a being you worship. I honestly couldnt get up every morning if I believed this.

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I know there are many Christians who disagree with this view, but they would also disagree with the scripture which says pretty much the exact same thing: we are not God; we are God's creation, and God can do with us as He wills.

But what you are forgetting is that though God has every right to "slaughter" every single one of us, He chooses not to. Instead, He sent His only Son to die a death He did not deserve so that we who deserve death should not receive it, but live eternally. There are two sides to the coin of God, but you only want to focus on one side in an effort to dismiss Him entirely. You are actually a good case study for the depravity of man and the enmity that man has against God, just as the Bible states. But I suppose we all are.