The unmoral god of the bible not only condones, but threatens rape. (genesis, Commandments)
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Originally Posted by jeffbase40
How hard is it to understand that this is a manner of speaking that isn't meant to be taken literal? I prove this with other passages in the Bible.
How hard is it to understand the is *your* god doing the speaking. Not an interpretation. Not a metaphor (although it would be a horrible one if it was). And not allegory.
BTW, who gets to choose when something is not literal in the bible?
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I'm kind of curious why the naysayers never concentrate on "God is love" and "God is working all together for good" and "God will have all mankind to be saved"? Kind of strange to me. It is like being married to a woman who, all she can do is find fault with her husband and just harangues him day after day after day. There has to be a mental deficit for someone to continue doing that.
Because your god condones slavery, beating slaves, genocide, rape, child abuse and callousness towards grieving family members.
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None of which is true.
Of course it's true, Jeff, and you have been shown that many times. To deny that is to willfully turn a blind eye on the truth. Willfully denying reality.
But fundamentalists are good at doing that in justifying atrocities. It is just one step above what DEASH is doing.
It matters, because there is a large group of men who want our laws to reflect this book.
Why did that God do that? It deserves an answer.
God didn't do it. A bunch of people imagined God did that, and wrote a book about it. Just because people say Jesus rose from the dead doesn't mean he did. Belief is not fact.
I think the story was a male sexual fantasy, like many others in the bible. Women being raped, and passed around to men. Girls having sex with their father. The belief Sodom and Gomorrah was about men having sex with men. An angry mob of men being offered a man's daughters to rape.
The theme of men controlling women is rampant. It is all about submitting to the will of men, who just happen to know the will of God. Sounds a little too convenient.
Sodom and Gomorrah would make South Beach and Las Vegas seem like big church-going cities.
Psalm 137:9 ....Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
"How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones against the rock," (Psalm 137:9).
Critics often bring up this verse as an attack on the validity of the Bible, but does the Bible teach that it is okay to kill children? The answer, of course, is no it doesn't. We must ask what the Psalmist was saying and why he was saying it.
The context of Psalm 137 is the Babylonian captivity. The Psalmist speaks of the captors tormenting the people of God (vv. 1-3), a promise to remember Jerusalem (vv. 5-6), and a curse against the captors (vv. 7-9).
The Psalmist is in exile and had probably witnessed the atrocities committed against his people, babies included. In the revenge-style that was so common at the time, he wishes the same upon his enemy as a description of their utter destruction. Nowhere does it say that God approves of the Psalmist’s request or that he fulfilled it. Just because it is recorded that the Psalmist wrote the imprecation, doesn’t mean it was approved by God.
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