(June 12, 2013 at 7:31 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Then to be more like God, we should all drown our children when they misbehave.
God didn’t drown His children, Noah and his family were spared.
(June 12, 2013 at 8:01 pm)cato123 Wrote: So tell me, exactly how does it feel to make a joke that only Mel Gibson would laugh at?
I didn’t make a joke; I reduced your position to absurdity. Your definition of morality defines the Holocaust as moral progress.
(June 12, 2013 at 8:08 pm)Ryantology Wrote: It is absolutely arbitrary, as is your assertion that God is the immutable standard of morality.
I do not think the word arbitrary means what you think it means. Morality that is rooted in God’s character is completely independent of man’s will and thoughts; therefore its objective and not arbitrary.
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Biblical morality has never been anything except "anything Christians choose to do". And, the Bible has enough in it to justify any example you want of killing your enemies in the name of God.
Most of scripture pre-dates Christianity so your statement above is non-sense.
Quote:My 'atheistic morality' does not permit the harm of any human being for any reason other than a person being a clear and immediate danger to myself or someone else.
Adolf Hitler’s morality disagreed with yours, whose is right and why?
Quote: The Holocaust was the ultimate expression of centuries of Christian hebrewphobia, carried out by Christian men and justified by long-held Christian prejudices as much as by a perversion of science and not opposed by any major Christian church.
Proof?