Response's to the Skeptics Annotated Bible Cruelty Short List -1 and 2 Samuel

"We do not deny that the Bible records God doing some things that seem 'cruel.' However, we approach these things from a Biblcial perspective...and that is the key to understanding why God did and allowed these events." -Introduction of 'Response's to..'

From gotquestions.org
www.gotquestions.org/SAB/SAB-CS-12Samuel­.html

The final one for this series.

Start at the Beginning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sEjSb...

Recommended Resource:
When Critics Ask by Norm Geisler.

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[Murdulo]

"Oh of course you silly atheists, god IS cruel sometimes. But it's our fault for not following their guidlines, which are of course written by men."

Pathetic religious excuses for justifying genocide, homophobia and slavery. Sickens me.

[pogibija]

Sorry it is our fault, we deserve to burn and be tortured for eternity because of such imperfections.

Such fucking bullshit, your god created everything, and can do anything and can see the future, so he already created us knowing we would burn forever and is like "lol well free will". How the fuck is that freewill is that love is he doesn't care about us and will let us be in pain forever.

Fucking pathetic morons there is no god

[Titty Sprinkles]

Please tell me you people aren't serious. Jesus tapdancing Christ

[Bill Benton]

One way of looking at this, is the question of how one would get God to a psychotherapist. This dude has some serious issues!!!

[Bill Benton]

The latter is wonderful, while the former is a psychopathological personality, or wild dog carefully shut away from the children.

[Bill Benton]

WAIT!!! Is this irony, or does the poster REALLY believe there is no problem with YHWH’s acts of barbarity in the OT books? These tales are waist-deep in bloodletting, and lunatic demands by an autocratic, patriarchal, vengeful monster deity…180 degrees apart from the one which Jesus sometimes references...the loving, supportive one...as part of a New Covenant.

[Michael Pollard]

At last - a cogent reasoned argument that would be accepted by any reasonable secular court. The scales have fallen from mine eyes!

[Richard Grant]

something funny I find a lot and i saw it in this posting.People harping on slavery.I tell u that slavery was legal at that time & quite common.Atheists practiced slavery.The same African people practiced slavery, they even hunted their own kind down and sold them to whoever paid.And a bit before that we were all naked, so r u--atheist dummies--going to say: Ah u Christians how u going to talk about morality if the Bible said u were all going naked?

[Richard Grant]

There's an intensity or extensity factor in violence which is hard to compare, like the length of the passages, and the intensity "rating" of the violence.

There're other factors: 1) Who enacts or is encouraged to enact the violence? 2) Who are the victim or intended victims of the violence? 3) I the violence focused in time, targets, and place? 4) What is the rationale for the violence?

Let's look at the points 1 to 4:

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[Richard Grant]

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1) Who enacts or is encouraged to enact the violence? It's not the same a passage that says that God was angry and punished someone violently, than one that encourages men to act violently.

Ex: The LORD is a man of war. Exodus 15:3 In this quotation there's no exhortation to believers to act violently.

Fight in the way of Allah. Quran 2:244 is an exhortation open in time, targets, etc.

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