William Lane Craig (WLC) made a brief overview of God’s Duality and supposed (and actual) contradictions. The love of God and the justice of God– an apparently double-faced concept– yet he says these “kiss” at the cross. This is the crux of what makes Christianity a death cult.
Simply put: what form of love entails crucifying people? Even if you say it is done in your stead (vicarious atonement) does that teach you anything good? Say you avoided paying $5 for a trinket and ran away, would the correct action be to have some benevolent leader pay the $5 in your stead? Would you not have just learned, for example, you can be unilaterally forgiven regardless of your mental state and or actions?
These are the questions that jump to my mind when I hear such deranged quotes as the following from WLC.
“At the cross, the justice and the love of God kiss.”
He makes this comment with delight and whimsy, like reading some sort of beautiful ending to a novel out loud. But think about what the gravity of this statement means for more than 20 seconds, and even if you subscribe to Christianity yourself, you can see the extent of unfathomable grandeur it proclaims.
・”At the [execution tool], the justice and the love of God kiss.”
・”At the [execution tool], the justice and the love of God [come together].”
・”[The central element of our religion, an execution tool]… is where… the justice and the love of God [come together]”
・”[The central element of our religion, execution, shows God’s justice and love]”
・”[Executing someone demonstrates love]”
Unravel the words a little bit.
Getting at the meaning of what WLC is actually saying, you see the anti-intellectual rhetoric in full force. He ends the video saying this is what makes Christianity great, beautiful, and profound as he waxes poetic. The great brush strokes of symbolism and reinterpretation and divine promise mask the crude underbelly that Christianity tacitly admits. It is a blood death cult.
Dog Whistles and Reading Between the Lines
WLC starts the video by saying “I’ve said the righteousness of God is double-faced,” prompting the start of his God’s Dilemma video. After moving forward, saying this righteousness of God encompasses “love and justice” (why must this be so?), he goes on to talk to these supposed contradictions for their true, allegedly beautiful and poetic meanings.
-> The thing is, simply put, a dilemma is in fact a problem which is not resolved.
-> Simply put, being double-faced, means to lie. It means to twist the meaning of things.
These two factors must not be forgotten. The psychologically manipulative factor of Christianity is, in saying so many words poetically and passionately with prideful smile and apparent philosophical bases, people like WLC get away with changing the meaning of words before your very eyes.
“double faced” means being righteous contains justice and love. In the biblical definition, according to WLC, justice contains execution for doing something vicariously. (That is not justice. Nor is it love.) He uses words cleverly like “seems” or framing this as a “dilemma” yet being a 2-minute video. The point is the viewing Christian knows it is not really a dilemma, or however they accept it to be, because they have already accepted that Christ and God are good. The point of the video is not to critically examine a dilemma and see where it leads us logically. The point is to subliminally train believers into accepting dilemmas and lies as solutions and truths, even when said to them point blank. It is like a metalogical hypnosis. The bleak reality of religion is its continuous battery-charge of cognitive dissonance. This is something accolades and preachers like WLC make great effort to endorse and carry out.
The next time a Christian hears these “dilemmas” and “love” and “justice” and “cross” paradigms, they do not associate it with the normal meanings of the words. They have built an internal, specialized thesaurus to avoid reality and construct their own.
| Word | Meaning | New Meaning |
| Dilemma | Unsolved Problem | Non-issue |
| Love | Care for others | public execution |
| Justice | fairness for people | public execution |
| cross | execution weapon | profound spiritual icon |
Part of deconstructing and deconverting is remembering what words actually mean, and seeing at face-value the harm of the lessons preached by warping them.