Posted: Oct 15, 2018 2:07 am
truelgbt wrote: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.
No, there is another point to be made, namely that the people who claim to be worshiping a loving God evidently (through their continued worship of a character described as having ordered and perpetrated unspeakable genocides) have lost their minds, and that their claims about morality (including but not limited to their views on the moral status of abortion) are vacuous and hypocritical in the extreme. Particularly when these self-appointed "moral policemen" take time out of their day to criticize atheists for their views on morality and then turn around and try to explain away why God orchestrating a genocide of an entire people is somehow a good thing.
Nobody is claiming "the bible says God committed genocide, so the bible is false". Rather, the point is that we are tired of hearing your religious bullshit about sin and morality when you repeatedly try to apologize for and explain away unspeakable evils depicted in your patently absurd religious scriptures. Shove it up your fucking arses we are tired of hearing your horseshit.