(August 29, 2010 at 10:40 am)Watson Wrote: This is called progress. Expansion. Not only is it a basic tenant of life itself, but it is thoroughly encouraged by Christianity. There is no 'moving' of 'goalposts.'
You missed my point. I said its bad enough with misunderstandings of science (never mind that threats were made to those who made such discoveries). As I said earlier, I can understand that. Primitive people (even if they were all atheist) would have to stumble on these things over time. But that slavery, genocide, misogyny and other things were done in the name of a god and are justified by Christians today is disgusting (whether in the Bible or within the history of Christianity).
It is no more different than those communists outside the Soviet Union who came up with all sorts of excuses for what Stalin was doing, even though it went against everything they believed. And its just as disgusting. That involved lots of goalpost moving in the same way. Why would someone need to defend such monstrosities?
It would be refreshing to see a Christian say that the genocides and other awful things of the Bible are morally repugnant (I have at least met some Jews, even a rabbi!-- who has said as much). But no, since their god can do no wrong, its OK. And you can't do that without getting tied up in semantic knots, redefining things that in the ordinary, everyday world would never fly.
“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.” ~ E.M. Cioran
