Why is belief in a higher power required?

[Esquilax]

You try because it makes you feel like somebody, you need a life, no you need Christ.

What I need, is a rational theist to debate with.

Yes, I know people feel pain when they are stabbed, the one thing you can not discount is the mercy God could have and cause these children to feel nothing, omnipotent.

Please remember you said this, because I'm going to use it to beat your argument into the ground in a little while.

This is not what you've been saying, you've been spouting all the horrible vile your mind can come up with about the Bible, now that you can not support that vile with the very thing you try to disgrace you have to make excuses and why so you can keep on saying every untruth about scripture you can dream up.

I thought the words were pretty clear? Murdered family, given away like property... what part of this seems good to you?

Somethings can be worse than death, yet they would have preferred to be the wives of their conquers than to be left with nothing, no husbands, no food, no means to make a living other than prostitution, no where to live in safety. So they could have left them to a worse fate.

So, a couple of cray cray ideas: one... how about no genocide? I know, it must seem terribly unorthodox, but how about your all good, all righteous god restrain himself for once and not murder everyone?

Another idea, since your god's such a moral person and such, is having his chosen people take care of the virgin women without forcing them into marriage to a stranger? Or hell, just feed them manna from heaven, he's sort of into that, no?

And why just the virgins, by the way? What else are we supposed to take from that?

Exactly were does it say that, why do you think these women were mistreated when the scriptures did not mention such. Why is it you see the worse in a people you do not know, why do you assume the worse of the Israelites. Your imagination is not only wild it's most distasteful, this leads to a lie.

Well, it was awfully specific about who to kill, and who to take hostage. And then it went on to describe giving women away like raffle prizes. And your bible does have a lot of attendant commandments regarding women being submissive to their husbands and all. I'm just putting together the pieces. Let's flip the script, though; why are you so quick to defend this stuff?

Oh, and are you still remembering that thing I told you to earlier? Cause that's coming up after the break.

You saw that did you, yep the word rape was not used so why do you assume the women were, again you assume the worst in people of ancient days.

Oh boy, here it is!

Where in the goddamn bible does it say that god made it so the children that were slaughtered didn't feel pain, you hypocrite?

This is just the perfect sign of your towering lack of self awareness, GC. Anyone says anything bad about god, and you demand that the scriptures use exacting, perfectly accurate language or else it didn't happen. You need to defend god? Well shit, let's just go making stuff up that doesn't even begin to appear in the book!

Which is it, GC? Does the bible need to painstakingly spell shit out before it's real, or can we read between the lines? Why is it you can make up whatever is needed for god to come out smelling like a rose, but anyone who disagrees with you has to draw you a fucking roadmap?

You claim that atheist have morals yet will claim anyone in scripture do not posses morals, why are you so bigoted, do you have no shame.

Silly christian, you can't be bigoted against fictional people. Least of all fictional murderers.

I indulge in seeking truth, you on the other hand seek to create your own truth out of lies, just exactly how does that set with reason, you know that which you claim to have yet, continue to demonstrate the opposite.

You indulge in whatever hand wringing double standards you need to to excuse immorality, all the while pointing fingers like any good self righteous hypocrite would.

You should join the clergy, you'd fit right in.

You have completely and absolutely failed in your attempt to pronounce guilt upon these people, you've given no facts to the contrary of scripture, only the same nonsense that comes from your warped mind. So the scriptures stand on their own as they always do.

So, when the scriptures don't say any of the things you've claimed them to say either, I should just ignore you? Well, I was planning to do that anyway, but I'm happy you gave me an out in this particular pile of vapid drivel. Thanks, dude.