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Nanook on Nostr: @[url=]SirHendrick[/url] When God was asked his name he replied, "I am that I am", he ...

@[url=https://noauthority.social/users/SirHendrick]SirHendrick[/url] When God was asked his name he replied, "I am that I am", he didn't reply Allah, Jehova or JHWH, just I am that I am, and it's difficult for me to comprehend a God overseeing more than 2 trillion galaxies in the visible universe and quite possibly an infinite number beyond that, each of which contains on average 600 billion stars, and of those stars nearly each has a planet, and 1-in-6 to 1-in-10 a planet in the habitable zone, and this data considering our current ability to find planets is biased to large planets around small stars so can't find Earth like planets around G-class stars, but of those maybe 1-in-1000 are capable of advanced life, this is still around 10^20 planets with intelligent life and again that's just the visible universe, the idea of such a God favoring one particularly savage tribe is for me untenable, so no I don't believe he favors Israel genociding it's neighbors, that said, I don't personally see the reason to extend blame to all people holding a particular religious belief because one particularly badly behaving country practices those beliefs. My take is we have enough real problems in this world not to imagine more so I am not willing to extend the bad behavior of Israel to all Jews everywhere or even all Jews within Israel, just as I am not willing to extend the bad behavior of some Muslims to all those who have Islam as their faith, nor am I willing to extend the bad behavior of a nations leaders to all of it's members, I sure as hell do not approve of many things our government does. I try not to fall victim to oversimplified generalizations, I know they are easy but I am not intellectually lazy and I feel moral responsibility towards not being so. You of course can make your own choices and if not buying Dell is one of them more power to you, I've got a 26 year old Dell desktop still working and a well behaved Dell laptop.