(July 30, 2020 at 1:58 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Perhaps human beings can already conceive of use cases for genocide, by that term or any other, and christianity simply manipulates those use cases.
It posits, in a very roundabout and idiosyncratic way, at least two types of people. The good and the bad. Conceptually, god is or will eliminate the bad ones. When we think of acceptable use cases for the extermination of an entire group of people, The Bad Ones™ immediately spring to mind as a potentially acceptable target. A bad man may commit genocide because it's tuesday, but a good man requires justifications, which magic book offers as a requirement of it's continued existence. If christianity failed to deliver desired goods, christianity would cease to exist.
If good, Christians would follow Jesus' thinking and actions that resembles, I have not come to save the well but the sick. IOW, I have come to cure, not kill.
Yahweh, on the other hand, and those you named, would rather kill than cure, even when a cure is supposed to be in their hands and god.
Christianity, as a decent religion, ceased to exists the moment Constantine bought it and decided what their ideology would be.
Regards
DL
