Sure it's based on intellect and reason. You just don't see it that way because you're focused on the attack on your invisible friend.
Simply put Yahweh's morality is a reflection of the people who invented him. If it was the other way around -- if Yahweh invented the Hebrews, then their morality would be a reflection of his morality. Instead we get excuses that it was the culture of the time. It's poor justification. One such characteristic of a Supreme Being would be-- if they are the absolute authority on morality, their morality would be absolute. A Supreme Being would not condone the rape of a woman and force her to marry her rapist because of the culture of the time, the stoning of a woman who isn't a virgin on her wedding day, or the stoning of someone who worked on the sabbath. These sound emotional, but they're also logical. Why would a Supreme Being limit their morality to the morality of their chosen people? That would--by definition -- make them not a supreme being.
Now if you want to get into the emotional side -- the fact that I refuse to worship your god even if he did exist, then we can do that too. I mean your god is an asshole who promoted sexism. As a woman I cannot understand how another woman could ever be a Christian. The things the bible says about women alone is enough for me to choose Satan over Yahweh.
Simply put Yahweh's morality is a reflection of the people who invented him. If it was the other way around -- if Yahweh invented the Hebrews, then their morality would be a reflection of his morality. Instead we get excuses that it was the culture of the time. It's poor justification. One such characteristic of a Supreme Being would be-- if they are the absolute authority on morality, their morality would be absolute. A Supreme Being would not condone the rape of a woman and force her to marry her rapist because of the culture of the time, the stoning of a woman who isn't a virgin on her wedding day, or the stoning of someone who worked on the sabbath. These sound emotional, but they're also logical. Why would a Supreme Being limit their morality to the morality of their chosen people? That would--by definition -- make them not a supreme being.
Now if you want to get into the emotional side -- the fact that I refuse to worship your god even if he did exist, then we can do that too. I mean your god is an asshole who promoted sexism. As a woman I cannot understand how another woman could ever be a Christian. The things the bible says about women alone is enough for me to choose Satan over Yahweh.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
