(April 5, 2017 at 2:29 pm)Drich Wrote:(April 3, 2017 at 5:05 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: And yet the Bible is ripe with instances of god telling people to kill someone who's innocent. So it's not the Bible that tells you you're not talking to god, but your own human conscience and secular laws.
Do you have an example of where any Christian is commanded by God to kill anything? If not then why the stacked/unfair comparison?
Nope. God has never commanded anyone to do anything. That being said, I don't see much difference between the wholesale slaughter of Israel's enemies in the OT and the horrors committed by Christian churches in more recent times. In both cases, the command to kill didn't come from God (any more than the command to be good all year comes from Father Christmas), but people became convinced that God would like it if they did these things.
Boru
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