(December 21, 2014 at 4:49 am)robvalue Wrote: I think it is likely he does know it is wrong, but he feels a compulsion to have to defend it at all costs. He would rather try and convince others, and himself, that a wrong is right, rather than consider his book may be wrong.
This is exactly it. We could address the verses about bashing out the brains of the enemy's babies, and you would see more circumlocutions from him appealing to dictionary definitions in order to explain why genocide is moral. We could discuss the fact that his god allegedly doomed every human who ever existed to death based on the "sins" of the first two, and Dreck here would jump to the defense of the concept of collective punishment, never mind that he would disparage it when the NaZis applied the concept to the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944.
This is the worst aspect of Christianity -- that it perverts the morals of good people on the basis of a Bronze Age society being held as the ideal.
