(June 21, 2013 at 4:27 pm)cato123 Wrote: Consilius,
You are omitting a very important part of the Exodus account that renders much of what you said irrelevant.
The fact you have not mentioned is that it was God who hardened Pharaoh's heart. Why? I think the only reasonable answer is so that God could keep fucking with them, including killing innocent children as you pointed out.
Actually - why are you limiting that question to only that mythical event?
THe great flood - another mythical event of the bible - would have killed nearly all the infants and babies on the earth - if it had happened - as well.
Of course - neither of these events actually happened.
There never was a great flood as described in the bible - and the Hebrews were not among the people held in bondage by egypt (THe claim of half a million or more would be notable if they were).
THe Exodus is another MYTH made up by humans - with no evidence that ever happened - primarily because there is no evidence that the Hebrews even existed near the implied time.
And of course - the the religion itself is a MYTH - since gods exist only as fictional characters - in made up stories - by mostly ancient people - who describe what the gods did in vivid terms based on the Humans assumptions of the characteristics of the Universe - which turned out not to be true.
