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In reply to the discussion: A song for today, March 20 [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)1 Samuel 15:3, kill everyone in Amalek.
Numbers 21:3 Kill the Canaanites.
Numbers 31:17-18 Kill the Midianites.
Let's be clear, according to that book, god ordered those people to slaughter even children.
What happens when you pray and you hear back and it's in the form of an order to kill? Will you tie your child to a stone and pick up the knife, if your creator tells you to? Will you even hope that the creator will relent at the last second and yell JUST KIDDING? Or will you just obey? What happens when your creator tells you to do something that YOU know is immoral? Will you do it? Have you the courage to say 'no' to a god? Abraham didn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_of_Isaac
Since when is the abrahamic god a god of peace, love, pardon, or joy? Even the new testament has shades of megalomania.
Matthew 10:34
Do you have the moral conviction to reject that?
Is your creator the source of your morality, or are you? Do you differentiate?