(April 6, 2016 at 11:44 am)SteveII Wrote: However, what is your point? That God doesn't exist because he commanded such a thing?
First, it throws out one of the qualities that Christians attribute to their god in order to suck in other people: that he is all-kind and all-loving. A god that slaughters children under any circumstances is neither of those things. Also, it defeats the common "morality" argument that people like William Lane Craig use to prove the existence of their god.
Quote:That God is a monster? To support that, you would have to assume there was no reason for these actions
Oh, I'm sorry. So there is a circumstance in which murdering innocent children is justified? Besides just 'being born into the wrong culture that doesn't worship me'? Have fun defending that one.
Quote:Related to this, why do you think God is under some kind of obligation to extend or preserve life? There is no basis for thinking that. Do you think humans have "rights" in relation to God? That would be to vastly misunderstand what it means to be God.
Would you still say that if god chose to murder your child? If a mother gives birth to a son, does her creating him give her a right to take his life, if she so pleases, or is he a separate and independent entity that deserves its own rights and cannot be owned by her?