Christians, would you kill for God?

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The point is your use of the word "demonstrably", and the complete lack of sensible examination of the text. I can use your words to the opposite of their meaning anytime and call that immoral, but that wouldn't be honest.

The problem is that to be "sensible" in my examination of the text, in order to come to the conclusion you wish me to reach, would require me to sell out my principles and throw away my knowledge of right and wrong in order to bend over backwards in service of the presupposed goodness of god.

Your double standard remains: you refuse to address biblical text accurately and cite laughingly naeve misinformation rather than employ the scientific method you use for everything else that can be falsified.

I think when you say that I refuse to address the biblical text "accurately," what you mean is I refuse to address it "sycophantically." I refuse to go through the mental contortions required to spin these actions as good, nor will I accept a priori demands that god is good, and therefore anything god commands would also be good. Goodness is demonstrated through action, not commanded through word; thinking entities can say whatever they want, it doesn't mean their actions somehow contort to fit those words.

Killing is wrong. Killing children? Super wrong. For reasons I'll happily educate you on if you prove to be so completely immoral and backwards that you can't figure them out on your own. In the bible, god is depicted killing children. You say that god is good; his actions killing children prove otherwise.

This doesn't mean that I need to spin murders as a "just" thing. It just means that you are wrong, and need to seriously re-evaluate your claims, rather than just flinging shit at those who disagree with your 1984-style doublespeak bullshit.