stretch3172 Wrote:Minimalist Wrote:Yeah...your fucking god is a real moral paragon.Figures you would cite one of the very few passages in the entire biblical text which says something like this.
What a scumbag.
How many passages like that in the entire biblical text do you figure there ought to be if the Bible is the word of God and God is perfectly loving, just, and merciful?
stretch3172 Wrote:As I said in another post, this command was issued specifically for a single event and not intended to be normative, for which reason later biblical revelation unanimously prohibits murder.
God: Murder is prohibited! Genocide is even worse! I tell you, do not ever do those things! Unless I tell you to do them!
stretch3172 Wrote:The other thing you haven't mentioned is the fact that God is perfectly just. Sin is so evil that it perverts everything it touches. The Amalekites, like many other Canaanite tribes, had practiced all sorts of wickedness over and over again for an extended period before the Israelites even arrived. God used Israel to punish the group as a whole for its sins just as He later used the Babylonians to do the same with the Israelites when they practiced immorality and social injustice for centuries with no repentance. I'm afraid that's the best answer I can give in light of what Scripture teaches.
What sort of wickedness did their suckling infants do, and why did God need the Israelites (or the Babylonians, for that matter) to do his dirty work?
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
