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The Anger of God in the Bible
Christopher hitchens describes god as a tyrant because of course you know god is the is the great ground of all being. There's this idea that if you don't accept this or if you put a foot wrong or if you do the wrong thing you get punished and in such a way that even if you do it inside your own head no but don't you have this this force that can punish you for it does not seem tyrannical to you yeah that does. See here's something very important philosophically that god doesn't need usgod needs nothing god is god the world adds nothing to god's greatness is a very important theological idea.