mike writes:
So if He kills or recommends an ugly action...
IF? IF? Is there some doubt?
Whew. I feel like the ghost of jar: Have you actually read the Bible?
Did you miss the parts where God tells his people to kill them--then, later, dammit, I said kill them all, die die die? Or the part where he says kill them all, but keep the women for yourselves?
See, when you kill a man in battle, that's war. When you kill a prisoner, that's murder. The Satanic League of Atheistic Moralists believes that is wrong, and we don't even care much for war. I suppose some Christians may hold a different view.
When you take the women against their will, that's rape. The Official..., etc.
...as He does at times in the OT, then He can only be doing it for an ultimately righteous reason.
Ah. Raping for God, murdering for Jesus.
If you will do anything the voice of Sam, er, God tells you to do, if you think an "ultimately righteous" end justifies rape and murder, you...you... I'm gobsmacked by the sanctimonious banality of evil in your argument.
You APPEAL to morality, but again, what is morality except a set of preferences between your ears, and those who agree with you?
Words for you to live by, I guess.
You've broken something in your head, mike.
"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."