The really fun part of being dystheistic is that you can find yourself agreeing with the final conclusion of a cheese eel like this but for diametrically opposite reasonshttps://twitter.com/DevonESawa/status/1301662098485735425 …
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Most of the things God does in the Torah make *sense* if he's a new god struggling to establish his territory against older, more established rivals and he's doing it by going scorched-earth really hard, breaking the existing terms of truce in favor of all-out war
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Which is, you know, a deconstructive take that's been applied to the Bible a ton, going back to Fritz Leiber's cynical view of gods in the Lankhmar books It's the theme of Pratchett's Small Gods, or Scalzi's The God Engines
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I don't know if I'd go that far - there's not really a lot of points where it seems like God might face a threat from other gods (although occasionally, hints of fights with monsters).
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Of course, there's really nowhere that you write hymns to a god over his narrower victories, whether it's El or Baal or Thor or whatever.
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