(June 24, 2015 at 6:54 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Randy's point is that if God had come out and hit everyone with all the morals all at once, it wouldn't have worked. People wouldn't have listened. People would have just dismissed it all right away and never changed. So God had to do it slowly for it to actually work. That's all Randy is saying here. I don't see why that should make you want to vomit.
(i'm going to keep saying this is randy's position not mine so that I don't get accused of believing things I don't actually believe)
And my point is that God, as an extremely powerful being, would have known a million ways to get the Israelites to accept all the morals at once. Hell, he could have just poofed it into their brain.
What makes the vomit rise in my throat is that both you and Randy seem to think that forcing a woman to share a bed with her rapist for a lifetime, probably bearing his children, is somehow acceptable under any context.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
