RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist
August 20, 2010 at 11:23 am
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2010 at 11:26 am by The Omnissiunt One.)
(August 19, 2010 at 7:12 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: What knowledge do you posses to make that judgement OO? I don't have to believe it, it logically follows: You don't have the information to judge.
No, I agree. It's perfectly possible that there were good reasons for brutally slaughtering all the adults of a race and keeping the female children as sex slaves. I find it unlikely, though. What is much more likely is that it was written by primitive tribesmen. If you can deny that, then I will be surprised.
(August 20, 2010 at 9:20 am)solja247 Wrote: Indeed. We dont know what the conversation with God and them was like so we shouldnt judge and say, 'Look! Look! God told them to kill them!'
The Word of God has been written with a cultral perspective slant. We shouldnt jump to any conclusions...
The Bible's fairly clear about what God said: '17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,
18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.'
Numbers 31:17-18.
Yes, it was written with a cultural perspective slant... can you guess why that is?
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
