(January 23, 2016 at 1:58 pm)athrock Wrote: Clearly, yours is the minority opinion. A few billion people have read the same texts to which you object and arrived at the opposite conclusion - including, btw, former atheists raised by atheist parents. So, don't give me any of the usual crap about all these people having been brainwashed when they were children.Ludicrous. If this were true rape would be legal.
(January 23, 2016 at 1:58 pm)athrock Wrote: The God of the Bible is NOT a demonstrably evil prick, and simply stating this as your opinion in this regard does nothing to prove your case.God commanded rape; therefore, he is evil. It is that simple. Your attempt to make it more complicated than that means you are having trouble reconciling the fact with your mistaken conclusion that God is kind and loving.
(January 23, 2016 at 1:58 pm)athrock Wrote: The point of all this, Cato, is simply to point out that it is possible to examine the concerns you and others share about God's actions in the OT and arrive at a reasoned conclusion that God is not a prick.
But that will require courage and effort...and openness to what the implications of your research might be for your view of God.
No, it requires rationalization based on willful ignorance or a labotomy.
