For good people to do bad things...

[Eilonnwy]

I've seen Fr0d0 insist that the Bible is such a perfect work of God, yet it condones slavery, rape, genocide, homophobia, etc...

Now at the same time the Bible condones wonderful things like love thy neighbor, give to the poor, etc... I would never deny these things exist in the Bible. However, it has both these things, so perfect work of God my ass.

To completely ignore all the atrocities of the Bible is outrageous. If this Bible was so perfect as Fr0d0 claims, why do these atrocities exist? Why can people "Cherry pick versus" to suit their sadistic whims? Isn't God the objective arbiter of morality? Objective morality means that only one true morality exists, so to put it off as being moral at the time is bullshit. Either it's moral or it isn't.

If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.

Source: http://www.evilbible.com/Rape.htm

That is immoral. Call it cherry picking all you want, but it's in there, it's in the book you call "perfect", the inerrant work of God. Bullshit. This passage passes off a major crime, a severe violation against women, as a minor fine and forces the victim to live with her abuser. This is not moral, not by our standards, and if objective morality exist it would have been immoral then too.