(April 8, 2017 at 10:08 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 5, 2017 at 2:29 pm)Drich Wrote: 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
That makes no sense Boru.
Even without a "direct command", the God character is like a gang leader, a mafia boss. Everyone knows who the leader is, but when you want to protect yourself as that Mafia boss and one of your underlings gets nabbed suddenly you expect them to keep their mouth shut or you throw them under the bus so they don't come after you.
The God character as a motif is written in an age of tribal rival kingships. When that leader tells you to do something, they can do it without telling you directly. Your fear of punishment from that leader is repeatedly ingrained on you mentally so do things for that leader because you already see others in that tribe/gang/mafia already doing it and you know the risk of dissent is deadly.
God " I didn't tell you to do that"
John Gotti " I didn't tell you to do that".
Yep how convenient the boss never takes responsibility for the conditions he put in place.
Blind loyalty is why a leader is followed and why a dictator can get away with blaming his followers for his own tyranny.
