{"id":130,"date":"2013-10-22T23:53:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/?p=130"},"modified":"2013-10-24T00:35:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T18:35:29","slug":"no-one-was-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/2013\/10\/22\/no-one-was-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"No one was harmed in the making of this religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"105-That-awkward-moment...-When-you-realize-your-Christian-Dad-would-kill-you-if-his-imaginary-friend-told-him-to..-abraham-awkward-christianity-fanaticism-infanticide\"<\/a>If God exists, he can’t or won’t further reduce human suffering from what we observe. \u00a0Could an all-loving God create and preside over such a world? \u00a0William Lane Craig says Yes-indeedily! \u00a0His treatment of this passage from the Old Testament clears it right up.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Bible says God ordered genocide:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut as for the towns of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive. You shall annihilate them\u2014the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites\u2014just as Yahweh your God has commanded.\u201d (Deuteronomy 20.16-18)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ok, then. \u00a0How does Craig get the blood out of God’s robes?<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, first of all, the Bible might be wrong. \u00a0It isn’t, but this is preferable to saying God is evil or nonexistent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, the Canaanites were given 400 years to repent. \u00a0It would be unjust to be patient any longer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Third, God gave us life. \u00a0He can end it whenever and however he wishes and he’s still loving.<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides all that, it’s not murder when God does it. \u00a0God has the right to command an act, which, in the absence of a divine command, would have been sin, but which is now morally obligatory in virtue of that command.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, who did God wrong by ordering the Isrealis to exterminate the Canaanites?<\/span><\/p>\n

The adults had it coming.<\/span><\/p>\n

The babies were better off dead. \u00a0Running them through with swords hastened their entry into heaven. \u00a0Their finite pain was offset by infinite bliss in paradise.<\/p>\n

The baby-killing Israeli soldiers were heroes.<\/p>\n

Ta da!<\/span><\/p>\n

Really. \u00a0Here is Craig’s article. \u00a0Check it out:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.reasonablefaith.org\/slaughter-of-the-canaanites<\/a><\/p>\n

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If God exists, he can’t or won’t further reduce human suffering from what we observe. \u00a0Could an all-loving God create and preside over such a world? \u00a0William Lane Craig says Yes-indeedily! \u00a0His treatment of this passage from the Old Testament clears it right up. The Bible says God ordered genocide: \u201cBut as for the towns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}