CHISTIANS PLEASE EXPLAIN

[Vicki Q]

Nobody lives their lives under the assumption that Hansel and Gretel represent the real world in any way.

I don't live my life on the assumption this came from a real incident. It's a story.

I know you get a lot of fundies here, and you probably get used to debate based on different assumptions. So can I make this clear: No-one died. It's a story. People die in stories all the time. No-one gets upset.

No, it's not about baldness. It's about a god who really has a holy boner for disproportionate retribution.

There was no retribution. No-one real got hurt. It's a story.

Murder doesn't become acceptable just because they weren't all actual children.

There was no murder. No-one died. It's a story.

murder doesn't become acceptable just because they're not on the same side.

There was no murder. It's a story.

He could have 'protected' his servant without the mass slaughter.

There was no mass slaughter. It's a story.

It's a message that God really just likes any excuse he can think of to kill people, when he even bothers with excuses.

No-one died. It's a story.

..we take global-scale genocide and teach kids to praise the killer in this story:

The story of Noah. Ah, that's different.

Wait. My mistake. It's not different. No-one died. It's a story. Although a well travelled one. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books...Flood.html

Note the lack of moral outrage in the report, BTW. It's a story. People die in stories all the time. Vogon highways, and that.


The Elisha story's about someone close to God who ended up being on the wrong side of a juvenile lynch mob. They got the tables turned on them. Like a message in seaside rock, it's part of a constant message in the OT- God will provide for those who work with Him. On the other hand, those who oppose Him will pay a price.

This is one of the issues the Early Church had to face up to- that the person closest to God ended up dying. It wasn't supposed to be like that at all. Something must have shocked them into the radically different narrative.

But that's for another day.