In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his might.

I don't know if I have to explain this to anybody, but this is messed up.

It's abuse.

Under any other circumstance of one person forcing another to follow them under the threat

of torture, we would classify this as abuse.

Shouldn't a perfect god be held to a much, much higher standard than humans?

If you condone this disgusting book, call us because the show is starting now.

Welcome to Talk Heathen, today is Sunday, July 2nd, 2023, and I am your host, Richard

Jiliver, and joining me today is Dr Dr. Ben. How are you, Ben?

I, you know, I was having a really good weekend knowing that it's a long weekend for me with

the holiday, but then I saw something on the internet, which we'll get into in a little bit,

but I am angry. I'm very angry at people,

and you're about to find out. Yeah, we will get into that shortly. But before we do,

a couple of announcements, Talk Heathen is a product of the Atheist Community of Austin,

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And of course, we have every week a question of the week

we call this section talk heathen to me and last week we asked you god looked down on his

creation and so it was blank so the top three answers were number three rage of heaven when god. When God looked down on his creation, he said, oops. I like that one, Ben. What do you think of that? Oh, that's a great one. And, you know, if you've seen some of the shorts that I've been part of on this channel, that's how I think God probably would respond to most of the human body and other animals that he's created

because it's pretty messed up. Yeah, absolutely is. Number two is Jordan Moore,

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