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This reeks of complaining in some form, and regardless it's almost certainly going to be offensive to most followers of Abrahamic religions.
Edited by Dirtyblue929
I'd cut it, it sounds a lot like complaining, it's most definitely natter, definitely soapboxing of some sort, but most of all it contributes nothing at all to the general mission of the site, which is tropes in media.
I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose me
As a Christian myself, I can actually get behind the basic idea of first one; though it could probably stand to get a revision of some kind (and I don't think I'm up for doing it myself considering I don't know what direction to take it). But then again, I'm not sure that Unbuilt Trope is a great place for this sort of thing, because... well, it feels off to discuss it as just another storytelling device.
The second one is flat-out false, though. I'm tempted to go on a rant as to the details, but needless to say things were always, as the entry says, "more complicated than 'do good and get rewarded'" (case in point, the Book of Job tackles the subject, and it predates the nation of Israel). The "foreign superpower" didn't prompt a rewrite of theology; God had always warned (and still warns) of judgment for disobedience, and Israel was invaded because they were repeatedly disobedient.
Edited by DragonRanger
Mythology & Religion has these two examples for The Bible. Are they legitimate examples, a different trope, or some sort of complaining?
- Picture if you will a being that exists outside of space and time that can make and unmake the universe at will just with its voice, who sometimes sends messengers into the mortal world to manipulate mortals into performing seemingly insignificant actions as small parts of a very long-term plan that is inscrutable to all beings except itself, that has the power not only to destroy said people's bodies but also to lock their souls into an eternal state of And I Must Scream for failing to follow said plan, and a form that is so incomprehensible to human beings that the mere sight of it would kill them instantly and even the most minuscule fraction of its power is able to induce visceral terror in even its most loyal of servants. No, it's not some Lovecraftian Eldritch Abomination; that's God Himself. And He's not out to destroy or mutate the reality He created with His sheer might; He's the benevolent guardian of humanity who sends a manifestation of Himself (Jesus) to show them the light, and protect them from a lesser-but-actually-evil entity (Satan).
The Old Testament as a whole (albeit with a few exceptions) is this. Your society believes that it worships the supreme God and that as long as it does so it will be completely prosperous; then a foreign superpower comes in, conquers your city and destroys the building where He lives and sends your people away from their land where they have to compromise their cultural identity to survive. Then a bunch of you start writing about a God and a world that are a lot more complicated than "do good and get rewarded".