When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall become tributary unto thee, and shall serve thee. And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee. Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth; but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee; - Deuteronomy 20:10-17
Tell a Christian this story, but change the setting, make it seem like it has nothing at all to do with their religion; they will agree that the people committing the act are doing something immoral. Then tell them the truth about the origin of the story. Watch them scramble to downplay it and perhaps even try to justify genocide, and slavery.
This is another reason why I think religion is evil. It makes believers think bad people are good, because God happens to be on their side. The Bible can turn evil actions into divine ones.
I am tempted to change the words 'Lord your God" to "Allah" and the names of the different people to "Jews, Christians" etc... and send this to my (very religious) relatives and see how they use this as evidence that Islam is evil. And then I could whip out the "It's from Deuteronomy, I just changed the names. Who's evil now?" But I like getting Christmas presents and birthday cards, so I won't.
ReplyDeletelol, I'm the same way with my relatives. Most of them are very religious. I wana do it, but I can't.
ReplyDeleteThis was moral for the Old Testament Jews to do, because it was God's orders. God's orders are always righteous.
ReplyDelete"What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!"-Romans 9:14
Just out of curiosity - on what grounds do you, as an atheist, claim moral standards? I'm not gonna claim that all Darwinists are serial killers, or that without Darwinism, we wouldn't have people like Hitler ("The heart is...desperately sick; who can understand it?"-Jeremiah 17:9). But on what philosophical grounds can you cogently maintain morality? Many people make claims to moral standards, but from a secular perspective, what stops a person from simply saying "I disagree" to the injunction "murder is wrong"?
Not all atheists are "Darwinists". Hitler was a Catholic, not only this, but the hatred he had towards Jews comes from religion (you should know why). But that aside, darwin had nothing to do with Hitlers ideas. Hitler wanted to create the perfect race of humans, Darwin talked about evolution of species, how it occurs in nature etc. Breeding animals has been known about for 1,000s of years. Hitler's ideas were based in the knowledge of animal breeding, Darwin provided nothing knew to that topic, only to how species came into existance.
ReplyDeleteTo think that morality comes from the Bible is nonsense. The prison population is 0.209% atheist, yet we make up around 16-20% of the population. That statistic shows that atheists behave better then believers, does it not? otherwise atheists should make up around 16-20%.
Okay...my point is that the atheist has no philosophical grounds for morality, whereas the Christian worldview has an objective basis. From a secular worldview, morality can only ever take the form of mutable opinion, which can be contradicted by anyone who disagrees. It's absurd for an atheist to speak or write on matters of "morality."
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't mean I think all atheists literally going around killing and raping people - they simply have no philosophical basis for prohibiting such behavior.
"To think that morality comes from the Bible is nonsense. The prison population is 0.209% atheist, yet we make up around 16-20% of the population. That statistic shows that atheists behave better then believers, does it not?"
Haha. Which general population are you talking about?
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ReplyDeleteit all was a way of controling the masses this through history has been nessary
ReplyDeleteLuke 12:10
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