I lived in Utah for several years as a teenager… Did you know (maybe you do) that Mormons believe that if a man lives piously, goes on a mission, marries a pious mormon girl in the temple, has several children and is sealed to them in the temple that he himself will become a god and get his OWN world to reign over?
As a reward to the good mormon girl, she will join him in his new position as the god of this new world, and she will be eternally pregnant, creating populations for the new world.

Um.
No thanks. (being a good mormon girl & eternally pregnant consort to the new god).

The questions really start getting interesting when discussing good mormon men who get married & sealed & divorced & remarried & sealed & etc. Who gets to be his goddess then?

If one eventually becomes a god, then who are mormons worshipping. And does that really even qualify as a religion, if you’re actually perhaps worshipping your great-great-grandfather in this world?
Makes my head hurt.

Say for example when Jesus feed the throngs by providing bread and wine to all, could the text recorded it as his divine ability to mass produce food when in actuality he might just have managed to get the masses of people with food to share with the less fortunate via an extraordinary appeal? Simpletons record this event as a miracle, but it might simply be misconstrued compassion. Perception affected my hunger, by position and the recollection affected by interpretation.

Anyways I wonder if in the actual events, if this poor atheist was literally silenced by having his tongue cut out, horrible yes, but practiced historically to silence blasphemers. It gets recorded as “God” did it, but it might have been the hand of God, i.e. the priests. He can no longer talk even after his confession because his freaking tongue is missing. The hand of man attributed to the hand of God.

Ultimately we are the dick trying to pawn off our own savagery as acts of God.

It’s also kind of funny. There were many signs they could have done against this man, but silencing him is quite telling. God didn’t know how to respond to the arguments of the atheist, so he just shut him up… lest he reveal that god does not exist.

I’d hate for someone else to prove that I don’t exist… danm, that’d suck