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Challenge to atheists: I find your lack of faith disturbing!
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RE: Challenge to atheists: I find your lack of faith disturbing!
(October 26, 2013 at 10:01 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote:
(October 26, 2013 at 9:19 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Maybe it wasn't all that extraordinary for him to do stuff like that. He wasn't a very nice guy.

...Said the Bible. Further, killing infants tends to be noteworthy, regardless of the character of who commanded it.


Noteworthy? Abortion doesn't seem to get much publicity. Herod was not a nice guy. He killed his own relatives too.


(October 26, 2013 at 10:01 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote:
Quote:How about the slaughter of the Canaanites?
Counter-apologists like to talk about that a LOT.
Historical event or fiction?

We bring it up because for Biblical literalists it's a massive problem in your theology if an perfect being is calling for constant near-genocides.

It's not a problem for me. Sometimes there are 'end-justifies-the-means' excuses for terrible violence.
More babies died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki than in Canaan.
You don't hear Lawrence Krauss apologising on behalf of scientists for the physics that produced the atom bomb!
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RE: Challenge to atheists: I find your lack of faith disturbing! - by Lion IRC - October 26, 2013 at 10:14 pm

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