I've always said (jokingly since I'm an atheist) that Christians got it mixed up and thought Satan was God, so they've really been worshiping Satan all this time. They don't want to admit they're wrong about him being good, so they make up all kinds of excuses for all the horrible things he does. That's why they were totally conditioned and ready to do the same with trump.
Just a gentle reminder that there are very many more Christians in the world that aren't American and certainly don't support Trump. Or even care that much about American politics.
And a reminder that the Crusades and Inquisition both happened before USA was a country or even colonies. And Protestantism started because some people thought the Catholic church was too lenient (while trying to avoid being put to death by the Catholic church for saying that publically).
Not to defend American Christianity, but I'm not buying that it's fine outside of America.
the issue with God is that its presence equates power with morality
I can't agree with this enough. My sister, a Christian, even agrees. Things are "good" and "bad" because god says they are, and for no other reason. And god is the highest good simply because he said that he is. The reason he gets to make those rules is that he's the most powerful.
Most ancient religions had gods that were both good and evil. They were flawed and just as bad as humans if not worse for their abuse of power. Christianity and Judaism is pretty different in that they claim god is super good, especially Christians, even though there are things in their own Bible that show their god being evil.
I always used to wonder why they worshipped such a shitty god, and if I, a mere human, have better morals and know right and wrong better than the Christian god, what good is he?
having been raised in this religion the whole thing is a con.
The whole thing runs like god cop bad cop. God is written as 'terrible' in the bible he's wrathful and vengeful and capricious as fuck. Old testament God it's hard to see as anything short of villanous, outside of Genesis. He really is only ever fucking shit up.
Jesus is the nice guy who protects you from God if you promise to believe in him and pay his agents.
There's simply no reason an all-powerful being needs anyone to be tortured to death to initiate a forgiveness. Torturing someone's descendants because they fucked up is some cartel shit. If your religion has morals on par with a cartel you might be objectively incorrect.