RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 21, 2013 at 4:56 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2013 at 4:56 pm by Cyberman.)
Fundy logic:
1. I worship God
2. I want my God to be the ultimate good guy
3. I wouldn't want to worship an evil god
4. The bible appears to say that God has done evil things
5. This would threaten my belief in a good god
6. Therefore, God's apparently evil actions must be
a) mistranslations, taken out of context, and/or outright heathen lies
b) derived from some moral standard infinitely more superior than I want to know
c) automatically good by virtue of God doing them
d) all of the above.
1. I worship God
2. I want my God to be the ultimate good guy
3. I wouldn't want to worship an evil god
4. The bible appears to say that God has done evil things
5. This would threaten my belief in a good god
6. Therefore, God's apparently evil actions must be
a) mistranslations, taken out of context, and/or outright heathen lies
b) derived from some moral standard infinitely more superior than I want to know
c) automatically good by virtue of God doing them
d) all of the above.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
