[dad justifying the deaths of well over 2,200,000 people recorded in the Bible]
mur·der (mûrdr)
Love killings by God are not any of these things at all. Any more than a farmer who has a sick cow, and has to put it down, for the sake of the rest of the herd is 'murdering' it!!!! Gottcha.
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Ah, I see. Euthanasia against those poor unfortunate souls that aren't in pain, aren't about to otherwise die, and don't want to meet their end. Nothin' wrong with that, no.
And God said, "Thou shalt not kill. Of course, that doesn't apply to me, I can do all the killin' I want because I just loooove it. And I love you, too, but if you kill someone else, you're going to hell. Gotcha!"
Love killings?
hairband said,
Hmmm, I'm no philosopher but if there are no moral standards except what god says is moral, can we really say that god is omnibenevolent (which arguably presupposes some objective yardstick).
Need more virgins for your tribe? Kill the men, children, and non-virgin women, it's okay! It's all out of LOVE!
I consider that to be murder. If you're doing it just to save the rest of the herd there are other solutions to try. Including going out of your way to separate that cow or applying possibly expensive medicines to her. I've had fish in the past and when one got sick they would be separated into a different tank (which cost extra money) and medicine tablets would be applied. I also made sure to keep their environment healthy to limit the start of sicknesses and so it was very rare. Apparently, however, if I decide to be lazy and kill someone for my laziness it's okay because it's love, not murder.
Right. But then, why would God make people is he knew he'd just have to condemn them to 'love killing' later down the line?
It still amazes me that Fundies will say absolutely anything in defense of their Bible-based delusions. I mean, come on, "Love killings?" You mean, God so loved the world that he sent his biggest, old, rotten Flood, that all who were not related to Noah would drown? Jeez! some love.
Many of the tribes talked of in the bible apparently had the “disease” of liberty, self-sustenance, freedom from assholes (for a while at least), love, family, hopes, wants and dreams, and a section of the world that they had inhabited for who knows how long. Then the “cure”, a Shermanesqe march through the mid-east plundering, looting, burning, raping and killing every man, woman, elderly, child, baby, cow, sheep, goat and every stalk of planted food and goods that they didn’t keep for themselves. They raided every piece of precious metals, oils and balms and even hand selected virgins to be kept as sex-slaves. The labels of “cure” and “disease” seem to be reversed here.
Yahweh, the God of the Bible, is anything but a God of Love. He is a god of death, pestilence, war, and destruction.
Except that, of course, if the farmer had the cure for the disease, he would use it instead of killing the cow.
I'm pretty sure he means that God is doing the killing out of love for the righteouslove that extends to the point that he will do literally anything to keep them in that state. Including obliterating any society that's even slightly dissimilar. Love for the "protected", not the slain.
I still don't get why he thinks the recalcitrance couldn't be overcome.
Confused?
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