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Originally Posted by awareness
But I think you are right. The Psalmist is just a sock puppet of God, we think. If we accept this verse, and others in the Psalms, we have to accept that God does not love "the little Children," or "those neighbors." Then we're forced to ask : "What's wrong with God, that He could write "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Why would God use such a hateful guy? That seeks to use God to promote his personal hatefulness?
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You are still avoiding the point. The problem isn't the Psalmist. The problem is God. He's the one who lets little children suffer. The Psalmist is just singing about it.
So why are you so bent out of shape about the Psalmist when you should be bent out of shape about God?
Your frustration is misdirected. You don't want to face the fact that God DOES let little children suffer. Yet, he loves them more than you ever could.
Of course, I'm being the rhetorical. The problem isn't God. The problem is, as U2's Bono so aptly put it, your "hippie" version of God and love. You want love on your terms, not as it really is.
This is the essence of the problem. Instead of trying to make God in your image, try imagining yourself in His.