Christians celebrate rape, torture, slavery and genocide.

[John V]

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.

God's also the ultimate judge. You don't like being judged. You think the punishment is too harsh. No surprise there.

Mainstream society doesn't hang its head in shame every time a convicted felon says his judgment was unfair or his punishment too harsh. We expect that. It's no big deal.