(July 26, 2015 at 2:16 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(July 26, 2015 at 1:05 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: As for the specifics of Jonah, you can argue that God FORCED Jonah to believe in him (if this helps you to continue denying God's goodness), but I read it as God doing a GOOD thing by saving Jonah's life.
And here lies the greatest problem with discussing anything about gawd with a christer. There is nothing their gawd can do that they can't construe as good, because they get to make up his motives for him. Coercing Jonah into obeying is ok because gawd was "doing a GOOD thing by saving Jonah's life." Ordering the slaughter of the Canaanites was ok because they were evil and gawd had promised that land to the Israelites. Firebombing an entire population is ok, "cuz they was wicked!!!" Destroying the entire fucking world is just fucking dandy because of the "wickedness" of every extant human being (including newborn infants) except, of course, for Noah and his family. Hell, even generations of incest, not once, but twice, seems to be perfectly acceptable despite the majority of christers abhorring the practice as immoral.
The fact that Christians have reasonable explanations for all your silly objections really sticks in your craw, doesn't it?
Get over it.
