Morality 2: Not-so-good books

Second part of series on morality. See below for bible references included in this video.

Death for victimless 'crime'
Yahweh requires death of sabbath workers
(Numbers 15 : 32-36)
Yahweh requires death of gay people:
(Leviticus 20 : 13)
Yahweh requires death of women who can't show virginity on wedding night:
(Deuteronomy 22 : 20-21)

Unaccountable slaughter
Yahweh kills 70,000 for David's census:
(2 Samuel 24 : 1-15)
Yahweh kills almost all land animals for human wickedness:
(Genesis 6 : 5-7)

Entrapment through mind-control
Yahweh hardens Pharaoh's heart:
(Exodus 4 : 21; see also Exodus 7 : 3; 9 : 12; 10 : 1; 10 : 20; 10 : 27; 11 : 10; 14 : 4; 14 : 8)
Yahweh hardens Egyptians' hearts:
(Exodus 14 : 17)
Yahweh hardens King of Heshbon's heart:
(Deuteronomy 2 : 30)
Yahweh sends powerful delusion:
(2 Thessalonians 2 : 11)
Yahweh deceives prophets, then punishes them:
(Ezekiel 14 : 9)

Punishment for others' sins
Yahweh says children won't die for fathers:
(Deuteronomy 24 : 16)
Yahweh requires children's death for their father's sins:
(Isaiah 14 : 21-22)
Yahweh orders the killing of Amalekite children and babies:
(I Samuel 15 : 2-3)
Yahweh orders the killing children without pity:
(Ezekiel 9 : 5-6)

Familial cannibalism:
(Jeremiah 19 : 9)
(Deuteronomy 28 : 53)
(Ezekiel 5 : 10)

Yahweh permits rape:
(Zechariah 14 : 2)

Yahweh permits slavery (the owning of people as property):
(Leviticus 25 : 46)

Yahweh permits (commits) mass murder:
(Exodus 12 : 29)

Jesus reinforces OT law:
"But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
(Matthew 15 : 3-4)

Jesus punishes a fig tree:
(Mark 11 : 12-4, 20-4)
(Matthew 21 : 18-22)

Jesus asks us to dispose of family relationships
(Luke 9 : 61-62)


Making of images forbidden:
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."
(Exodus 20 : 4)
Making of images commanded:
"And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold"
(Exodus 25 : 18)

Certain sinners to be stoned to death by all the men of the town:
(Deuteronomy 21 : 21)
Only the sinless are fit to cast the first stone:
(John 8 : 7)
We are all sinners:
(Romans 3 : 23)

Good deeds are to be shown:
(Matthew 5 : 16)
Good deeds are not to be shown:
(Matthew 6 : 1)

Gay sex deemed a sin:
(Leviticus 18 : 22)

Non-believers to be put to death:
(2 Chronicles 15 : 13)

We are to seek peace:
(Psalms 34 : 14)

We are to be good neighbours:
(Philippians 2 : 4)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• so called good books
• immorality
• deception
• hypocrisy
• outdated
• inconsistency
• claims to perfection
• imperfection
• rape
• slavery
• cannibalism
• everything permitted
• injustice
• sacred thoughts
• introjection
• morality develops
• dogma does not

[joethemoproductions]

@damntull

This has nothing to do with courage. You're making statements without backing them up, and before I give you another opinion, I want to know why you think killing gay people would be immoral.

Respond to how you could consider the god of christian myth moral when it contradicts your position on right to life. Answer what god idea would fulfill your right to life. And provide evidence to its existence.

[damntull]

@joethemoproductions

It appears my comments are being removed, but I'll try once more. Why are you being so evasive, and not answering my question? I said, why, on your view, would it be immoral to kill people with same sex attractions, if 90% of society passed a law saying it is legal to do so? Please provide an answer, if you have the courage to do so. If you merely ask another question, I will assume you have neither courage, nor an answer (which is undoubtedly the case).

[damntull]

@joethemoproductions

You're a secular humanist, so to you it would be immoral. Explain to me why it would be immoral.

[joethemoproductions]

@joethemoproductions

I'd still like to know about this right to life.

[joethemoproductions]

@damntull

It depends on who you are. To the fundamentalist christian, it would be moral. To a secular humanist, it would be immoral. You are looking for an absolute morality. I don't think that exists. Even a christian should recognize that: ancient Hebrew text and christian text endorse slavery. Many christians used the bible to justify plantation slavery. To them it was moral. To the slave and the abolitionist, it was immoral.

And a war determined which morality prevailed.

[joethemoproductions]

@damntull

We're social animals with an inherent need to organize. An element of organization is what we call morality, and morals often have to do with whose in power. Hebrew kings and priests thought slavery was moral and got their morality enforced. I bet the slaves didn't think it moral, but they didn't have power.

In a secular democracy, public debate, science, legal theory, and voting often determine what is right and wrong. Morality has been and continues to be a work in progress.

[damntull]

@joethemoproductions

Let's suppose you live in a society where it was politically decided that homosexuals have no right to live. Would it be immoral for me to kill you under that circumstance?