Is God a Dictator?

Right-wingers and religious people in Europe and North America often like to complain about dictators. They are always going on about their "freedom." Unsurprisingly, many of them are Christians. Like any good religious person, they overlook the fact that their God is an autocratic tyrant who is worse than any dictator in history!

I know a lot of you religious and conservative people aren't smart enough to know what autocracy is, so let me define it for you. While I'm at it, I'll define monarch too.

Autocrat: a cruel and oppressive dictator
Monarchy: an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority

Think about it. Do you remember electing any god? What kind of democracy has a leader who will punish you for not believing in him or agreeing with him? Some will argue that God should be in power because he "created life." Did you ask to be alive? No you didn't, this cruel life on Earth was forced on you.

Jesus Christ is termed "King of Kings" in the Bible, particularly in the Book of Revelation, 17:14 and 19:16. Jesus says in the Book of Matthew, verse 28:18, that all authority on earth has been given to him. We can tell from this that Christ, the embodiment of God, is certainly far from being a constitutional monarch, let alone a democratic ruler. He is an absolute monarch, one of the oldest forms of autocratic oppressors.

The hallmark of almost all undemocratic forms of government is cruel and unusual punishment. In case you were unaware, cruel and unusual punishment is prohibited by the US Constitution. Oddly enough, American conservatives support cruel and unusual punishment when their dictator in the sky does it.

Revelation 14:11 “[referring to those who worship the beast] the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever and they have no rest day and night.”

Matthew 13:41 "The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. And throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Isaiah 66:24 "And as they go out, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me. For the worms that devour them will never die, and the fire that burns them will never go out. All who pass by will view them with utter horror."

According to the Bible quotes above, if you break God's insane laws you will burn, have your teeth broken, and have other unspeakable things done to you in Hell for all eternity. Seriously imagine how bad it must feel to be burning inside of a lake of fire for all eternity! That is a million times worse than any of the torments dished out by human dictators (which include water-boarding, rape, beatings, starvation, electrocution, and forced labor). On top of all that misery, you will have absolutely no rest! Even Hitler let the Jews sleep in the Concentration Camps! We can safely conclude from this that God is worse than Hitler!

While I'm at it, here is another thing to think about. Does anyone really deserve to be tortured day and night for all eternity? God's punishments don't fit the crimes. If you lived a life of sin, shouldn't you get a simple lifetime of punishment instead of an eternity? It is frowned upon when judges sentence people to death for stealing, so why is it acceptable for a "Holy" judge to torture someone forever and ever even though they only broke a few laws in one short lifetime?

Psalm 9:17 "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God."

Many dictators, Hitler for example, liked to conquer nations that refused to obey their imperialist wishes. The Christian god does a lot worse than this. Instead of doing normal oppression, he will torture the entire nation for all eternity in Hell. This is worse than anything Hitler or the Roman emperors could ever dream of doing.

1 Sam. 15:3 " [God said to his followers] Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all they have and do not spare them. Kill both man and women, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey." (See also: Deut.2:30-35, 7:1-2, 7:16; Josh.6:21; 1 Sam.6:19; Jer.13:14)

This is reminiscent of the things the Nazis did to the Slavs. The Nazis destroyed the Slavic infrastructure and indiscriminately murdered civilians in the most brutal ways. This lead to the death of between 3.5 to 6 million Slavic civilians. What I'm trying to say here is that if God exists, which he doesn't, then he is the inventor of genocide, the original Nazi.

1 Corinthians 11:3 "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God."

1 Corinthians 14:34 "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law."

Genesis 3:16 "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."

There are many sexist passages in the Bible like the ones quoted above. The third one discusses how God punished all women for something that only one woman, Eve, did. How is this "just and fair?"

In Genesis 9:24-27, God's friend Noah placed a curse on the descendants of Ham, who are believed to be of African descent. These verses also encourage slavery. So not only has God allied himself with a racist, he is also pro-slavery.

In conclusion, the God of the Bible is a merciless, tyrannical, genocidal, racist, slave-driving, sexist, quasi-Nazi, and I think that is an understatement. If you wouldn't support a human tyrant doing any of these things, then why would you turn a blind eye to the tyrant in your religious books?

Despite my criticisms of his ideology, I believe the Anarchist Mikhail Bakunin had it right when he said, "Even if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."

Now, here is something you might find interesting. It is an essay by Frederick Engels, the co-founder of Marxism, which debunks the Book of Revelations. Click here to read it.