But what about this problem: let's say that you believe that God exists and that only he commands what is moral and what is immoral, is it not then completely ridiculous to rely on the Bible on what he said is moral?
I say that because most of the "moral" commands come from Exodus and Deuteronomy which were given to Moses and his people a long time ago, but Moses never existed. So that means that, if you are a believer, you believe that God whispered to some people in the past what is moral and then they created a moral fairytale that included those moral commands and dictated them to scribes who copied them for generations into the books in the Bible.
You would think that if God exists and his moral laws are important that he would present them in a more serious fashion than as a fairytale created and copied by primitive anonymous people in a dubious book.
I say that because most of the "moral" commands come from Exodus and Deuteronomy which were given to Moses and his people a long time ago, but Moses never existed. So that means that, if you are a believer, you believe that God whispered to some people in the past what is moral and then they created a moral fairytale that included those moral commands and dictated them to scribes who copied them for generations into the books in the Bible.
You would think that if God exists and his moral laws are important that he would present them in a more serious fashion than as a fairytale created and copied by primitive anonymous people in a dubious book.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
