Abrahamic god of death and destruction

[Minimalist]

So "god" didn't believe in capital punishment, eh?

Interesting.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

So "god" didn't believe in capital punishment, eh?

Interesting.

It's an ethnocentric Middle Eastern Jewish religious fairy tale written by an English committee.  It's not supposed to make sense.

[vorlon13]

By letting Cain live we have an explanation of why we have so many miscreants.

In the Mormon orbit, it goes off the deep end . .

[vorlon13]

I also note the plague of frogs wasn't all that destructive, just gross and disgusting.

[Chad32]

A plague of frogs doesn't make a lot of sense, compared to the other stuff. I'm not sure why that would be so horrible. Discomforting, perhaps, but little more than that.

[TheRocketSurgeon]

I've always been amazed at Christians who claim that the Bible is why they are against abortion.

Even leaving out all the God-ordered genocides which specifically include children, there is a Bible passage that describes a procedure by which priests can cause a miscarriage (an abortion) in a cheating wife, in Numbers chapter 5. We know from other Jewish traditions and writings that a child was not considered "a human being" until they had drawn their first breath, and there is no reason to even suspect that the Old Testament authors had any different view of the undead unborn. (Sorry for the little joke, but I've always found "unborn" to be as silly a term as "undead".) If Christians have social reasons why they think that all lives are sacred, even those of the fetus, then they should acknowledge that it is a social construct, not a Biblical doctrine. Indeed, for all their "life is sacred" rhetoric in the anti-abortion campaigns, many have noted the contempt the fundamentalists seem to feel for the born, when it comes time to oppose the death penalty or prevent deaths of children by disease and starvation.

I will give the Catholics credit in that one regard; they are the only ones who seem to have a consistent theology of opposition to all death, in the above categories. Catholic organizations have quietly been fighting against the death penalty, nuclear weapons, and "okay you've been born to a poor mother, so good luck with the food thing!" attitudes of the average Christian for years. But even then, the Catholic obsession with keeping women in their place as breeders has spilled over into some anti-life positions, such as Mother Teresa's orders that prevented the Catholic charities in India from working/cooperating with or supporting other charities which distributed condoms to the women forced into sex slavery and prostitution in that country, even in areas being ravaged by HIV/AIDS. As always, it seems, the Christian theology comes ahead of a genuine respect for human dignity.

[robvalue]

The bible supports virtually every horror imaginable. It certainly supports abortion. Christians just find more and more creative ways to ignore the parts they don't like.

It doesn't however say anything about contraception or masturbation as far as I know, people just made that up.

[Angrboda]

If God is truly omnipotent, he could just will things to change. He seems to enjoy using the cruder methods of persuasion.