I agree David is a prick, I also agree that David deserved punishment as far as the Lord sees it...HOWEVER, he gave the wives to the neighbor to fuck in front of the whole world, and unless we assume those women just happened to LIKE the neighbor and want him, that would be RAPE. And c'mon, are you going to reach so far as to say we should assume these women (who God made commit Adultery, an offense punishable by Death) WANTED to fuck the neighbor? Wanted to commit the Deady Sin of Adultery? If not you MUST assume God caused their rape.
And you may not be able to judge God for killing an innocent child who committed no sin...you may also be able to rationalize why the mother of that child should suffer the intolerable loss of a child...I cannot and choose to believe a God like that, is fiction. And that the REAL power of the Universe has nothing to with that sort of crap.
I mean for now...THIS is our agree to disagree. I cannot put my faith and belief in any deity that so blithely sends two women to the neighbor to be raped and kills the child because DAVID did some shit...Torture David...put David in HELL, whatever, but leave innocents out of it.
So for all the reasons I post above, and these...I reject the BIBLICAL version of God.
Feel free to have the last word, because it doesn't much matter in this context.
I'd like to hang out and talk some more sometime. I like you and enjoy it, but I don;t see it bearing fruit in the sense that, for me, like most Christians, you don;t see how many excuses and apologies, and rationalizations, and most of all "God works in Mysterious ways, who am I to question?" that pervades all discussion with religious folk. Don't get me wrong, I DID have fun, but it still comes down to a certain level of disagreement that becomes immutable...y'know?
For now...I do think you'd TOTALLY enjoy this page:
http://www.freethoughtpedia.com/wiki...inst_Scripture
and their Forum as well. Good fun!
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