RE: Steemit Social Experiment: 50SBD and 50 Steem Power give Away
Here is my reaction to it:
At first, I was in awe. The adoration and the style of singing are very entrancing. I wished I had such a belief, that I could think that a being so magnigicent exists, to create a world and give balance, to create creatures of different hierarchies and give them tools to thrive. I enjoyed the description of this balance like a shower of rainbow.
Then, the song started getting weird and the singer started talking about how we, God's creations, would be bathed in fire and punishment, how we would be chained by our feet and all of that threatening. I felt quite attacked! As if this being weren't as magnificent as I thought but an evil king. To see this vile giant that creates a conscious being only to pluck them from comfort and bring them into a pit of suffering was very overwhelming.
From this point on, I couldn't help but not be into the song anymore. I listened to the rest of it but I felt like I couldn't regain interest. I was made very uneasy by the second part, as if the paradise had been taken from me by this being and I had been doomed to an eternity of fire... and it were just on a whim, for its own pleasure and thoughts of grandeur. As if he thought that having the ability to create a being also gave him the right to throw them in boiling water.
I'm very... distressed.
I love your comment and your detail re-action to the verse, as a Muslim myself I feel a lot of discomforts when god talks about punishment, but when I see what is happening in the world from people cheating, stealing, killing rape, and many other crimes, it makes perfect sense that One can't kill another human and get away with it just like that, the verses that talks about punishment are for anyone who is causing harm to other humans. We also believe that God made humans in a way they can always choose to do good or bad, and one part clearly mentions: "there is any reward for goodness except goodness?".
I am sorry if it made you feel distressed at the end, but I was also expecting that, but just imagine you are a mother or father to little children and they are living in your house, As parents we make some rules, like do not lie, do not hit each other, and so on, and we want our children to have the best practices and education, hence we sometimes punish them if they cross the lines or send them to the naughty chair if they are not behaving well, So yes I do expect the creator to treat us the same way and worn us of the consequesnces if we go on earth and start messing around with our fellow humans.
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