Evangelical Alliance: "We aren't homophobic women-haters"

[Tonus]

They used to hang horse thieves. You could kill a person by stealing his horse. This isn't moral relativism, but the same morality being applied to the situation at the time.

The fact remains that you have a god who once considered certain acts to be so severe that they merited a death penalty, but now some of them are not even considered wicked or wrong. There was a time when it was man's moral imperative to stone a person who worked on a weekend, but now it would be murder, wouldn't it?

God was purposely separating the Jewish nation, which he needed to remain whole, from the surrounding nations. The strict law was one of the ways to keep the pagan influences from working their way into the Israelite nation.

Didn't he purposely separate them by visiting plagues upon the Egyptians, and splitting a sea so his people could walk across, and leading them on one massacre of those surrounding nations after another? Making the sun stand still in the sky, or sending an angel to slaughter 185,000 enemy soldiers in a single night, or making the walls of a city collapse... that wasn't enough to make them stand apart?

He had to turn them into nosy savages, ready to grab some stones at the slightest provocation so that they could pummel each other, as well? Hey, here's a way they could have stood apart from those other nations: by being a model of progressive and generous human behavior. This idea that a being of near-infinite power --who could literally part the sea with but a thought-- suddenly couldn't figure out how to get his kids to behave is embarrassing, to be honest.