(January 16, 2016 at 5:17 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Or it isn't. You sit on one side of the line and I sit on the other. Ne'er the twain shall meet, eh? I have to ask, though...would you advocate that we kill 70k people if our government failed to conduct a census properly? Will you advocate for the execution of children for the incompetence of a census taker or the crimes of their parents?
Show me that you have the courage of your convictions. Condone those actions. Or...... are you a fraud?
You keep assuming that 70K died simply because David conducted a census. And maybe that was true, but maybe there were other reasons for God's punishment of the people with the census merely being the final straw, so to speak.
There is no moral equivalency between God and a human government. Consequently, God may rightly choose to act in a way that a government cannot. After all, the government would be executing people who belong ultimately to God, and it has no right to do so any more than you have the right to kill your neighbor's dog for barking all night.
One other point: You do have a proclivity for name-calling, don't you? According to you, I'm a liar, a missionary, and now a fraud.
Are you this unkind to everyone you meet? Or is this a special hatred reserved for those whose religious views you despise?
If you and Minimalist are good examples of what atheism does to the soul of those who embrace it, I think you FAIL as ambassadors for your own alternative belief system. With atheists like you spewing your venom in forums such as this, there will be no shortage of people who want nothing to do with your kind of hate.
