God commands child sacrifice (not Isaac story)

[Cinjin]

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21 “‘But the children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws, of which I said, “The person who obeys them will live by them,” and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 But I withheld my hand, and for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. 23 Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries, 24 because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols. 25 So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live; 26 I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.’

This means the people turned to other gods, such as Molech whose worshipers sacrificed their first-born children by burning them alive.

The other verse "Dedicate your firstborn sons to me" is typified by the life of Samuel where they are sent to be Levities.

1 Samuel 1:11

And she made this vow: “O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, if you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a son, then I will give him back to you. He will be yours for his entire lifetime, and as a sign that he has been dedicated to the Lord, his hair will never be cut.

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This does not address the verse Ex. 22:29-30 in the OP and is a blatant copout.
It CLEARLY does command the sacrifice of children and just because I Sam does not command sacrifice doesn't mean that the verse in Ex. 22 can be overlooked. ESPECIALLY since there is a precedent set by the story of Abraham and Isaac where god CLEARLY approves of human child sacrifice even if he didn't got through with it in that particular story.

It's the same old apologetics bullocks: "This is what the bible says, but through very careful word bending and jaw dropping mental gymnastics, we can make it seem like our little book of lies isn't filled with such horrific commands from an angry narcissistic dick bag of a god." Meanwhile, you apologists are forced to admit that your god DOES approve of human sacrifice.

Isaac ... yep.
The Egyptians Firstborn ... yep.
His own Son ... yep.

That you can't get around, and yet you'll try to sell us a giant steaming pile of bull shit in order to save face ... or rather save your god's face.

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First of all, Christianity is not the oldest religion on the planet by a long shot, and age does not offer a religion legitimacy. So I don't know what you're getting at with the silly dates.

There is this site on the interweb call google pronounced "Goo-gle" and all you have to do is what they call a 'search.' you see when you do a 'search' Google looks up all the related articals and websites that match phrases or key words in your search. This does not mean all pages that google will display are revelent, but if you can click on and find two or more that say the same thing, then (for this crowd anyway) it is enough to argue with.. Most of the time..

Snarky little cuss tonight. This is a pathetic attempt to dodge an actual response to my statement. I don't give a shit where you got your numbers and that was never my point.

Secondly, Christianity is no more unique than any other religion.

Not any more, but that is not what i orginally stated.

Christianity never was. A unique take on tired old worn out ideas is not unique.

In fact it is exactly identical in that it takes tried and true principles of belief and adds it's own "unique" flavor to them to make it appear original. When in reality, its the same old tired bull shit of heaven, hell, blood sacrifice, virgin births, messiahs, miracles and eternal punishment.

Your entire post is painfully dishonest.

according to who? the zeighests? to you who wants to paint all religions with the same brush so it is easy for you to dismiss?
If this is your standard then i guess in this case the 'truth' is relitive.

Don't put words in my mouth you pretentious god sucker. I never used the word zeitgeist. There's several thousand years of human history that document that every religion steals/borrows from the others and then "makes it their own." Christianity is absolutely no different, and it has morphed and changed just like all the rest.