Christians celebrate rape, torture, slavery and genocide.
November 4, 2012 at 4:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2012 at 4:43 pm by Ryantology.)
This has come up several times between myself and Drich, as he lacks the wits to realize he paints himself into a corner every time he attempts to justify the crimes God encourages, or directly commits. So, I'd like to address it as its own topic, as it usually comes up within others.
If you are a Christian (at least in the slavish and mindless way Drich is), you are compelled to accept two things:
1: God is all-knowing, all-powerful, everywhere at once. He is the very quintessence of 'good'. He is the ultimate morality. He is the ultimate righteousness.
2. The Bible, and everything in it, are indefatigable truth and must be accepted without doubt or question as factual.
Drich argues the first point frequently, in several contexts. If you point out to him that God is documented, in scripture, as wiping out millions of people without mercy, he will tell you that God is not beholden to Man's morality, as if Man's morality is inferior to that held by someone guilty of genocide.
If one reads the Bible without their critical thinking functions blunted by faith, it is impossible to justify loyalty to God on the basis that he is good and moral, unless you are willing to profess that the actions his own allegedly indisputable text indicts him of are also good and moral actions.
If you are a true Christian, you have to read this list and say, with a straight face, that everything in that list is a good and moral action, because every single crime in there was either perpetrated directly by God himself, perpetrated by men acting under God's direct orders, or done with God's implicit blessing. It is, in fact, not extreme at all to pin every crime ever committed on the creator being who can stop all of it at any time he desires, because it is clear that he desires evil in the world. He would not allow it to exist otherwise. If you refuse to do this, your faith in God is obviously not total, and according to guys like Drich, a lack of total servility to God means you're not going to Heaven.
If you are a Christian, a Jew, or a Muslim, or any other sect who pledges his or her soul to Yahweh, you are aiding and abetting a criminal. Which makes you no better than that criminal.
If you are a Christian (at least in the slavish and mindless way Drich is), you are compelled to accept two things:
1: God is all-knowing, all-powerful, everywhere at once. He is the very quintessence of 'good'. He is the ultimate morality. He is the ultimate righteousness.
2. The Bible, and everything in it, are indefatigable truth and must be accepted without doubt or question as factual.
Drich argues the first point frequently, in several contexts. If you point out to him that God is documented, in scripture, as wiping out millions of people without mercy, he will tell you that God is not beholden to Man's morality, as if Man's morality is inferior to that held by someone guilty of genocide.
If one reads the Bible without their critical thinking functions blunted by faith, it is impossible to justify loyalty to God on the basis that he is good and moral, unless you are willing to profess that the actions his own allegedly indisputable text indicts him of are also good and moral actions.
If you are a true Christian, you have to read this list and say, with a straight face, that everything in that list is a good and moral action, because every single crime in there was either perpetrated directly by God himself, perpetrated by men acting under God's direct orders, or done with God's implicit blessing. It is, in fact, not extreme at all to pin every crime ever committed on the creator being who can stop all of it at any time he desires, because it is clear that he desires evil in the world. He would not allow it to exist otherwise. If you refuse to do this, your faith in God is obviously not total, and according to guys like Drich, a lack of total servility to God means you're not going to Heaven.
If you are a Christian, a Jew, or a Muslim, or any other sect who pledges his or her soul to Yahweh, you are aiding and abetting a criminal. Which makes you no better than that criminal.
