RE: The Immorality of God - Slavery in the Old Testament
January 24, 2016 at 7:42 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 7:43 pm by athrock.)
(January 24, 2016 at 5:25 pm)Esquilax Wrote: But three is both ineffective and inconsistent with the character of god, leading to immense human suffering over the course of many, many years, in a world where you fully acknowledge that two happens. God could have- and I would argue should have, if he disliked slavery- performed dialed back versions of one and two to discourage slavery immediately, since he's apparently okay doing that for other crimes, rather than even courting three at all. You don't take a gentle tack when approaching a topic like slavery, but resort to the death penalty over looking around or touching the Ark, without a profoundly messed up, immoral sense of priorities.
That's sort of the problem. In your rush to excuse the inexcusable, you're positing a wildly inconsistent, contradictory god. Clearly you either worship a madman, or the god you're suggesting is not the one present in the book.
Or a GOD who is simply not like you and whose thoughts are not your thoughts.
And here we come to the nub of the issue: God has done something that you don't like, so you don't like God.
If you were God, you would have done things better. He was such an idiot.
I'll bet if you were a Catholic, you would SO much smarter than the pope, wouldn't you?
You DO know that your superiority complex is actually hiding fears of inferiority and inadequacy, right?
