(December 9, 2013 at 7:59 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: Thank you for the cites OM.
I doubt theists accept the overwhelming consensus of modern scholarship on this topic either (Finkelstein, Dever, et al), but that's their loss.
One would think this fact would be sufficient to throw a monkey wrench in the whole Abrahamic works, but like the Mormons, no amount of contrary evidence or lack of supporting evidence will change the poor deluded soul's minds.
No worries mate, I wasn't trying to steal your thunder or anything, but I know what people are like so I thought I'd jump in before anyone got the chance
(December 9, 2013 at 8:29 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: The exodus of Israelite people who left Egypt are the ones who Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss accuse of complicity in the slaughter of the Canaanites.
You tell me. Did they invade Canaan? Did that happen?
They, like many, use the story to question the integrity of the "all loving, all powerful source of absolute morality". You don't need to believe a story is true to think it stinks of excrement.
