RE: How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahami...
April 13, 2017 at 10:49 pm
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2017 at 10:51 pm by AceBoogie.
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(April 13, 2017 at 5:00 pm)SteveII Wrote: Setting aside that you used the word genocide wrong, you think people whose "thoughts and hearts were evil all the time" should be put in time-out? Are you saying that God was not justified in wiping the slate clean? On what do you base that?
Genocide: An intentional action to destroy a people in whole or in part.
Sure, many definitions of genocide include a discrimination based on race, political views or social status. Are we really going to start arguing definitions here? Would you rather call it a massacre? A slaughter? Mass murder? Or am I using those ones incorrectly as well?
You think it was okay for a supposedly benevolent god to kill almost every single human being on Earth, women, children and newborn babies included? Surely there were even some innocent men among the bunch too, no?
And you're saying you see no inconsistency here? That a loving god killed almost every single person on the planet? Not to mention that all of these people, since they were so wicked and sinful, were surely sent to hell.
Really?
I would seriously think about the next thing you post because this is embarrassing. I would have more respect if you took the whole "things were different back then" position.
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It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
