The Immorality of God - Slavery in the Old Testament

[Mudhammam]

No, but since you're the one who brought up the specific issue of child sacrifice as a quasi-defense for the grotesque theology and law of the Old Testament, I figured you'd at least acknowledge Yahweh's direct use and sanctioning of it.

Sanctioning?

Nestor, you need to read more of the OT.

God's struggle with Israel was that they kept going back to the old gods, the old ways. He never told the Israelites to sacrifice their children.

Okay, let's read it together, and try not to be dishonest about what it plainly states:

"I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord."

I'm sure if those were the words of Baal, you'd object to my use of the terms "sanctioned by their Lord."

On second thought...just stick with the New. Understanding justification should give you more than enough to think about. 

I think the concept of human sacrifice, and a penalty for unbelief, are deeply flawed and morally primitive doctrines that only highly confused people whose moral intuitions were deluded by religious storytelling could find meritable.