tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post8247638836917743060..comments2024-01-24T04:02:06.466-05:00Comments on Why I De-Converted from Evangelical Christianity: The Christian Delusion: Chapter Eight--Yahweh is a Moral MonsterKen Pulliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12161943466797514854noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-80966037963273447922010-05-07T02:46:53.962-04:002010-05-07T02:46:53.962-04:00Can a bridge be a moral monster? I had a friend t...Can a bridge be a moral monster? I had a friend that drove truck for a living. He had a 13' truck and came upon a 12' 7" bridge once. It was a bad outcome. Was the bridge intolerant? What do you think?Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04981853933753422607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-22207932850209569922010-05-07T02:10:30.816-04:002010-05-07T02:10:30.816-04:00@Claire
Hey Aqualung@Claire<br />Hey AqualungBoydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04981853933753422607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-47069775016122734752010-04-30T20:09:31.069-04:002010-04-30T20:09:31.069-04:00Good luck convincing a believer that God is a mora...Good luck convincing a believer that God is a moral monster. That answer is always the same. God is alway assumed to be always good and always right and always incapable of wrong doing or immorality. So, since God commanded the Canaanite genocide, the genocide must be good and righteous and justified. Oh, and the Canaanites were evil and deserved it. Game over.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03798437859699719795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-47003367095532696882010-04-28T12:33:35.944-04:002010-04-28T12:33:35.944-04:00That is just to be expected as man made God in his...That is just to be expected as man made God in his image, not the other way round.Clarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17836679819711814306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-55187416534269930202010-04-28T11:37:13.438-04:002010-04-28T11:37:13.438-04:00---
It always amazes (though it shouldn't, gi...---<br /><br />It always amazes (though it shouldn't, given that they are human constructs), that the methods used by God in the Biblical stories are always so...human... <br /><br />For example, if God wanted to clear a path to the "Promised Land" and get the Israalites there, he could temporarialy or permanently just move the entire Caananite cities to some other location. There was surely enough free and open and land at the time. Like Avalos said, God could have made all the female inhabitants of Caanan infertile, thus cutting off these "wicked" people at the source.<br /><br />Needless to say, there are so MANY things God could have done that wouldn't have required mass bloodshed, slaughter and horror. And God, if he be omniscient, would have know that less vicious actions would have cut down on this negative stereotype of Christianity, would have led to less violence in the future from the three monotheistic religions.<br /><br />Moreover, with the kind of reasoning we see from Copan/Craig et. al., there isn't a damn thing God could command or do that would be immoral for him. He could order the rape of a small child or the torture of an elderly person, and we could just claim, "They were wicked", or "His ways are higher than our ways!". <br /><br />Or he could do something utterly ridiculous like consciously torture someone for all eternity, with no hope of respite or reprieve, and the Christian could still find some way to call him good.<br /><br />Wait...Exploring the Unknowablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15267687022642518868noreply@blogger.com