[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by MarcBee

Bingo, ILG. Furthermore, a common Christian ruse is to keep claiming that "context" somehow changes the moral meaning of genocide, fratricide, and killing of children. Sorry, but to the morally sensitive, there is probably NO context to justify some crimes--but we keep waiting to hear a good reason! So far, the OT "context" falls flat. Of course, the next favorite toggle is to claim, "God must have his reasons." In other words, if our god did it or said it, it's got to be correct, so lets not accept the REST OF humanity's (in this case superior) moral sense. Or yet another toggle--inventions--such as to claim, "The dead babies must have been spirited safely to the arms of God." This invented stuff does not appear anywhere close to the texts in question. But of course, if they can find a possible explanation based on some other scripture anywhere else in the bible, even if centuries later, that's fair game to the faith-filled mind. Whatever can bail the mind out of cognitive dissonance, no matter how wild or improbable, doesn't matter: gotta preserve personal faith, as well as the infallibility doctrine. It's that simple.

Of course, when Muslims or the Muslim god or the Muslim Messenger perform atrocities similar to the OT god, well, that's different, right? (Boo, hiss....)

So, today, the only wandering, conquesting, tribal nomads who are still beheading and beating women are not the Hebrews. Why is that?