Posted: Oct 15, 2018 1:21 am
Agrippina wrote:I thought about this subject. What about all the tens of thousands of people "smote" by God in the Old Testament? Surely that's genocide associated with God and his people, not atheists.
From an objective point of view, genocide by God and his people can only be used as a claim against Christianity if:
1) God does in fact exist.
2) The God of the OT is the true God as depicted in the OT.
3) The OT events actually happened as recorded in the OT.
Is that what you are lending support to? All those 3 points?
Or are you just saying that what they believe in makes them guilty of genocide too? That would be a weak argument, especially coming from an atheist who claims there is no God, if you are an atheist of course.
On the other hand, the list of genocides in the Original Post happened in modern times and are indeed true by all accounts although the actual numbers of those murdered varies somewhat but still in the millions dead.