RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 18, 2013 at 8:25 am
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2013 at 8:36 am by John V.)
(September 17, 2013 at 5:26 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Watch out, Ryan! I tallied John's inconsistencies and deflections during an argument once, and he's had me on ignore ever since!Actually I took you off about a week ago because I couldn't remember why I put you on in the first place. Don't overestimate yourself. Ryantology has a track record of quality posts, and so some dishonest tactics are overlooked. You got into those tactics without the track record.
(September 17, 2013 at 5:07 pm)Ryantology Wrote:No, but what's your point? The existence of vegans shows that it is not necessary for people to kill and eat in order to survive. You're dodging, as you always do on this topic.(September 17, 2013 at 4:51 pm)John V Wrote: Are non-vegans murderers?Does God eat the people he kills?
1. Humans kill other species unnecessarily.
2. Such killing is not called murder.
3. The justification given for 2 is that humans have greater mental capacity than the other animals they kill.
4. God has greater mental capacity than humans.
5. Therefore, it is not murder when God kills humans.
Your question is an implication that 1 is false, i.e. that humans only kill out of necessity. I've already refuted that in at least two ways: the existence of vegans, and the killing of ants.
(September 18, 2013 at 6:48 am)max-greece Wrote: There is a difference between God's relationship to man and man's to the ant (for example).Huh? Neither does god claim universal parenthood over the human race.
Man has, as far as I am aware, never declared how much it loves the ant and how dear the ant is to it.
Man has never claimed a parental relationship to the ant.
As parents go, of course, God sucks. "Do as I say and not as I do." = Bad parenting.
