(June 9, 2014 at 9:02 pm)Brakeman Wrote: In these verses, god kills a child with a horrible lingering death to punish the father for perceived slights. It's a real dick move.
Really, this whole thing is just born out of bronze age cultures. All of the gods back then seemed to be capricious dicks who would screw with mortals with little or no provocation. The only difference here is that over time, people stopped believing in those bronze-age gods... except this one. This one got some weird iron-age mythology tacked on top, and two thousand years later, the apologists are still making excuses for super creepy bronze-age sensibilities.
(June 10, 2014 at 1:41 am)Theonewhoanswersyourquestions Wrote: God punishes David in a way that he will still be able to perform his Kingly duties because he still ha plans for David, God would not punish the kingdom, since this would not allow the kingdom to continue on, so by taking the son that he had with his shamed wife, he shall be punished but still continue to do his duties as king
So, why not just give him chronic pain, or something? Your sense of justice is really warped by a desire to not hold your god accountable for terrible actions.
