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Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
RE: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
(October 29, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(October 29, 2015 at 8:43 am)Irrational Wrote: According to dictionary.com, one of the synonyms for benevolent is good.

You are forcing a distinction where there shouldn't be. For a lot of people, and from the point of view of justice, it wouldn't be benevolent or good for a judge to let a convicted murderer go his merry way without having him be held accountable for his actions.

More to the point, it isn't moral to execute a "criminal" for crimes you forced him to commit both by creating his criminal nature, and forcing him to take part in your "plan", both of which the Christian god is guilty.
Can a god who tells fathers how to properly sell their daughters into sexual slaver V) be morally excellent? Will you surf the internet for a dictionary that defines moral excellence in a way that allows you to answer that question in the affirmative? Perhaps the Bible dictionary?

Maybe my error is that I'm interpreting the Bible literally. Can we glean some profound spiritual lesson from this passage if we interpret it metaphorically?
Quote:When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment."
(Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

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RE: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion? - by Rhondazvous - October 29, 2015 at 6:55 pm

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