Free For all - Open Discussions and DebatesGod wants us to kill HomosexualsI am very keen to learn further, but I won't learn anything by automatically assuming that you are totally correct. You still have not provided any rational answer to the following: What happened to the 6th Commandment 'you shall not commit murder' when God, to use your own words, 'ordered the annihilation of all adults who practiced idolatry'. From your very own words, I can assume God may support and even command mass murder if His intended victims are guilty of Idolatry. If God wanted these people dead, He could have had them drop dead on the spot. Instead he ordered a mass slaughter. Therefore the 6th Commandment should surely read, 'You shall not commit murder unless I order you to do so'. God says you mustn't judge your fellow man, but in your very own words, 'God has used nations to judge other nations including His own'! To me, this suggests God is a hypocrite! 'You must not judge your fellow man unless I command you to do so'. Also, please answer this: You said earlier, '...the 400 virgins were not raped they were given in marriage.' Now let's examine this: Here are 400 virgins who have just seen their Mothers, Fathers, Grandparents, Brothers and Sisters all brutally murdered. Imagine the horror and the sheer scale of bereavement they must have been feeling. They are then taken by the very men who have perpetrated this horror and given to them in marriage. How would a woman feel if she was forcibly made to marry someone who had murdered her entire family? I don't deny the misery that men must undergo in forced marriages, but here we are talking about a man taking or kidnapping a virgin he likes the look of and forcing her to marry him. Such a man is using the institution of marriage to codone his forceable rape. The woman is surely not going to want to have sex with a man responsible for the slaughter of her entire family. You then go on to say:'Your appeal to "misery" of women totally ignores the fact God gave the Hebrews rules for treating women and men were not allowed to treat their wives as chattals.' So you think that makes it all right do you? With God's backing, you can slaughter an entire town except for the young female virgins. If you fancy one of these virgins, you can force her to marry you, which then allows you to rape her as much as you like with God's blessing. All of this is OK because God has given the Hebrews strict rules for treating women so that they're not allowed to treat them as chattals. All consciences are thus salved. This is not just immoral, it's evil!! If you can provide a convincing answer to all of the points I've raised here, which shows that the women were not raped and God did not order mass murder (although you've said yourself that he did), I will be prepared to revise my opinion and look again. |
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