the so fallible Bible

[xpastor]

Drich, I am quite sure that you understand in your heart that it is wrong and evil to cut a baby's throat. If you want to insult your own intelligence by claiming that it used to be OK when a god commanded it, I will not waste my time debating with you.

xpastor: I used to say the reason was that the Bible was written by barbarians, for barbarians, about barbarians. There's an element of truth there, but it is not the whole story.

Drich: wow. how many in your church?

That was said AFTER I left the church. However, I revised my opinion still further when I read the kind of biblical scholarship they kept away from us in my seminary, and I learned that the supposed massacres of Israel's enemies were nothing but propaganda written hundreds of years after the supposed events.

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The argument is easily countered by noting that the Americans gave no orders to kill everyone including even infants, so presumably if the ancient Israelites had had modern technology, they would have murdered far more. However, that does not go to the heart of the matter. The Old Testament represents God, supposedly the standard of all morality, as a genocidal monster.

Wow how soon we forget the past. What of the Native American who were hunted down to the last member of a people/tribe? Who do you think Hitler got his inspiration from with the Jews?

Right. The genocide of the Native Americans was terrible and despicable. And weren't those Christian Americans who killed them off?