(April 24, 2015 at 7:56 am)pocaracas Wrote: So we have Moses, bringing "his people" from Egypt to Mt. Sinai where Jehova gives him the ten commandments...
And one of them is simply "you shall not murder", but... but... what did god do with all the plagues he sent down on Egypt, particularly the one with all the firstborns, if not murdering?
What sort of moral authority does such a being have to tell his "children" not to murder when that's exactly what he did a couple of pages back?!
The first few commandments don't deal with the well being of humans at all. God's top priority on that list of laws is him.
"Thou shalt not kill" isn't as much hypocritical as it is arbitrary. Is it wrong to kill someone in self defense if your life is in danger? The hypocrisy is when it is combined with the top priorities of the list. It teaches you not to value humanity, it teaches you to value the tribe. So if you buy "thou shalt not kill" within the context of that list, he isn't saying protect all humans, he is saying it is ok to kill humans of other tribes. The "thou shalt not kill" meant only those within your tribe.
But yea, combine it with all the violence God commits and or sanctions his tribes to do on others, "thou shalt not kill" is merely an arbitrary law designed to promote him and what he wants.
