(June 24, 2015 at 1:15 am)robvalue Wrote: Oh, for sure. If Yahweh was a human doing all those things, anyone with any moral fibre would call him evil.
The get out of jail free card is that God "defines" morality. If he does it, it must be moral, even when he's poking his dick right in your eye while you're trying to concentrate.
The NT attempt at God is a lot better, but very far from perfect. At least if you randomly pick stuff from the NT there's a chance of coming across something nice sounding. Pretty impossible with the OT.
I disagree. Jesus goes on and on about hellfire and damnation. Killing you is one thing, but torturing you forever is in a whole other league of evil.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
