RE: The Immorality of God - Slavery in the Old Testament
January 25, 2016 at 8:56 am
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2016 at 9:00 am by athrock.)
(January 25, 2016 at 7:41 am)Mr.wizard Wrote:(January 25, 2016 at 7:27 am)athrock Wrote: My insistence?
Perhaps it is simply the insistence of atheists that God is immoral which demands a response. I mean, it's not like believers are sitting around anxiously discussing this amongst themselves.
As I have said repeatedly in this forum, if you're going to be an atheist, be a good one. If you're going to argue with believers, do it well.
Attempting to paint God as a moral monster because He gave guidelines for the treatment of slaves (v. prohibiting slavery outright) is a lame argument that fails to make the case atheists are trying to win. It is entirely possible that God could both permit slavery and be a perfect, loving God at the same time.
In the absence of a proof of contradiction, the "Immoral God" argument does nothing to advance the atheist's position that God does not exist, and therefore, it should be discarded.
It's a BAD argument.
Do you consider slavery immoral?
Yes, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.
Seriously, if someone wants to make a case that benevolent slavery (one of the many degrees of slavery which Jorm brought to the table last night) was actually a win-win scenario, I would consider the argument open-mindedly.
Being a well-treated slave in order to work off a debt and then going free sounds better than the alternative of debtor's prison.
