In response to a really, really aggravating post about misotheism

[feotakahari]

The point is less “God is a hostile force” and more “there are people who think rape is God’s will, and those people are a hostile force.” Or “there are people whose response to their child’s mental illness is to try to beat the demons out.” Or “there are people who think women are unsuited to philosophy, because someone with good karma would have reincarnated as a man instead.” Or “there is at least one person (the Conservapedia guy) who thinks the parable of Christ and the adulteress was a later revision, because a truly divine entity would have righteously killed the adulteress.” Philosophy means nothing without linking it to real-world consequences, and there are all manner of consequences that come from “divine entities chose how this world would function.”

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[entanglingbriars]

The Conservapedia is correct that the woman caught in adultery appears to be a later revision, based the existence of early manuscripts of John that don't contain it, but afaik Schlafly is nearly unique in thinking that it ought to be purged or that it doesn't represent Jesus' nature.