Part 2 (Second Half) Old Testament Murder & Genocide

A look at the divinely directed murder and genocide in the Old Testament and whether it was right or wrong.

An Honest Search for the Truth - Part 2 Old Testament Murder

This video is the second of a series that will address inconsistencies & contradictions in the Bible that we studied and researched on our way out of organized religion. The videos will be derived from a document containing that body of research which was written to answer the many inquiries we knew we would have after our deconversion was made public. Being 3rd generation Christians, the flavor of which holds that the Bible is inerrant, divinely inspired, and literally interpreted, the extrication of ourselves from organized religion was not without exit wounds.

Our hope is that this video series will help those Christians who have questions or may be "riding the fence" to allow rational discourse with regard to their religious beliefs. And that possibly, they can remove the thought constraints installed by their respective religous beliefs.

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[gjsterp]

Read the scholar Karen Armstrong's "History of God," to get a bigger picture of all the religions.

I am now reading her "The Great Transformation" which gives more info on this fascinating subject.

Ms. Armstrong is an ex-nun, and true scholar so her search for truth can not be doubted.

[holysinecure]

google "the god fraud"

[gjsterp]

I have watched Sam Harris on several videos, and read his article and Armstrongs response.

I agree with them both, which might sound conflicting, but they are both right,

Different people need to be handled this information in different ways.

Few Christians cave under a frontal assault.

What we need to do, is teach our children to think critically, and then let them make their own decisions about religion.

We can only hope they come to the right decision.

[holysinecure]

Richard Feynman once said that in science you start with assuming everything is false or wrong until its demonstrated otherwise.

Likewise, the beauty of forgoing tradition (religious, cultural, or otherwise) is that your beliefs can always be under scrutiny and measured against what is verifiably known to be true and if they make it through years of skeptical fire, then they are indeed true and worthy of acceptance.

[YY4Me133]

Whatever argument can be used to justify killing the children does not translate to killing other animals. Was "god" afraid that cows were too pagan to live? The stories in the christian bible, OT and NT, reflect the barbaric culture in which they were written. Nothing more.

[ReclaimAmber]

@Phaedron777 Wow, your grasp on history is astounding. Truly impressive. So the church came along at the end of the medieval era? Really? And it brought with it an age of reason? Really? And we have the church to thank for reason and "super science"? Well, I guess that just about wraps this thread up in a neat little package. I and every other literate, sane human on earth stand corrected! Thanks, Phaedron777.

[ReclaimAmber]

@Phaedron777 Yes, it was about race back then, as it still is. Faith once again reveals itself to be a cynical and manipulative excuse for slaughter, land-grabbing, and tribalism. The Israelites were uncorrupted? Really? Every single fairytale in those sickening books speaks of the wickedness of the Israelites. Hence Moses (fictional character) smashing the commandments (stolen from previous faiths and simple common sense). Hey Phaedron777, your antipsychotic meds aren't just for show!

[ReclaimAmber]

@Phaedron777 Have you ever met a child?

[ReclaimAmber]

@Phaedron777 Oh, I get it. God judged me before I was ever born. That seems perfectly reasonable. After all, I was kind of a sinner and a whoremonger while in the womb. Thanks Phadron777.

[ReclaimAmber]

Great great great post!!! Actually, some hope should be derived from all this. The narrator asks us to imagine implementing this sort of genocidal mandate in a modern country, and we simply cannot do it (at least those of us infected with sanity and reason). This should tell us that barbaric religions of the Abrahamic sort are being slowly bred out of humanity. Have no fear...the Old Testament and those who follow it (Phaedron777) are nothing but speed bumps on our road to enlightenment.

[MrSomethingscary]

so is it safe to assume that everyone here is doing their best to end abortions? few thousand canaanite kids vs 50+million so far in america alone. or are the pictures and sad music part of a feigned hypocritical attempt to justify hating god on the pretense that his morality isn't as good as ours?

[Phibriglex]

While I'm not trying to justify the killing of children, you are assuming that the child has not already been influenced by their parents in their practices. Consider this thought experiment.

When you tell a child about Santa Claus and for many years, have convinced and repeatedly told to your child that Santa Claus is real. Now when the child's parent's, who the child trusts completely, dies and some stranger tells the child Santa is not real. Would the child simply accept that fact?

[Phaedron777]

You also don't get that WHO we are HERE in this life is ALREADY a judgment from God. That is our preordained fate, but what we do here is up to us. The souls that inhabited those were judged already. The animals dying is also because they are spirtiually unclean. These animals were NOT eaten, or taken as lifestock. They were KILLED.

[Phaedron777]

They were not innocent children, they were evil demonic nephilim. You fools need to wake up. The righteous did these things because you don't know how bad it really was.

[Phaedron777]

See people don't get that it WAS about RACE back then, because the peoples being destroyed here are SATANS SEED. There is a way that seems right to man, but the end therein is death. The Israelites were the uncorrupted race from whom Jesus would come. Also, you have no idea of the KARMA of these people and who they were in previous world ages.