God Loves To Kill His Children

February 16, 2009 By Daniel Florien 445 Comments

Knife and BloodIn the Bible, there are many massacres. Here’s just a partial list to give you an idea:

  • God killed everyone except a few people in a global flood [estimated at 30 million] (Gen 6)
  • Killed all the innocent firstborn of Egypt [estimated at 500,000] (Ex. 11)
  • Maimed and killed 42 children for calling a man “bald head” (2 Kings 2)
  • Killed 15,000 people for complaining (Num 16)
  • Killed 24,000 for immorality (Num 25)
  • Killed 90,000 Midianites (Num 31)
  • Killed everyone in the city of Jerico (Joshua 6)
  • Killed 12,000 people in a day because they were in the “promised land” (Joshua 8)
  • Killed 10,000 Canaanities because they were in the way (Judges 1)
  • Killed 10,000 Moabites after using the Moabites to killed many of his own people (Judges 3)
  • Made 120,000 Midianites kill each other (Judges 7)
  • Killed 50,000 Benjaminites because they made God angry (Judges 20)
  • Killed 70,000 men because David did what God told him to do (2 Sam 24)
  • Killed 127,000 soldiers over a theological dispute (1 Kings 20)
  • Killed 1,000,000 Ethiopians just because (2 Chron 14)

Just in that selective list, God killed about 32 million people!

Hilter only killed 11 million. Try as he might, he just couldn’t beat God’s record even with all that modern warfare technology.

The Bible might be one of the bloodiest books in history — especially for one thought of as perfect, pure, written by God, and the best and only guide for morality.

All I know is I wouldn’t want my children getting their morals from it.

Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, said:

The Bible story of Joshua’s destruction of Jericho, and the invasion of the Promise Land in general, is morally indistinguishable from Hilter’s invasion of Poland, or Saddam Hussein’s massacres of the Kurds and the Marsh Arabs.

Even if there was evidence that this God existed — and I know of none — would he really deserve to be worshiped? I don’t think so. This god would be the devil of hell.[digg=http://digg.com/arts_culture/God_Loves_To_Kill_His_Children]

Thank goodness he probably doesn’t exist.

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Filed Under: Atheism, Bible, Christianity, Quotes, The Problem of Evil 445 Comments

Calvinism Is Bullshit

February 2, 2009 By Daniel Florien 34 Comments

John Loftus says that Calvinism is bullshit, and I have no choice but to agree (and it is God’s will that I agree, according to Calvinism). I was a Calvinist for many years, so I should know.

Filed Under: Christianity, Links, The Problem of Evil 34 Comments

God smites worshipers, kills 7 and injures 50

January 21, 2009 By Daniel Florien 152 Comments

shackIn Sao Paulo, Brazil, seven people were killed and at least 50 injured after the ceiling of an evangelical church collapsed.

These poor people were worshipping their God and he couldn’t even stop their roof from falling. It’s almost like he’s not there or doesn’t care, you know? Or maybe he wants them to stop worshiping him.

But, thank God, the church founders are safe:

It was founded in 1986 by Estevam and Sonia Hernandes, a couple who were arrested in Miami in 2007 for failing to declare a large sum of cash brought into the United States…. They are wanted in Brazil on money laundering charges.

Praise be his holy name! His ways are beyond our ways, his thoughts beyond our thoughts!

Filed Under: Christianity, God, Religion, The Problem of Evil 152 Comments

Interesting bio of the week

December 30, 2008 By Daniel Florien 77 Comments

I am a real live sinful person who clings to the radical idea that God has been infinitely good to me through the bloody sacrifice of Jesus….

I thoroughly enjoy shooting firearms, watching Husker or Sox ball, and engaging in or observing any other form of sporting violence or conflict that reminds me that God is going to pick a fight someday soon and he will tromp the unrepentant bad guys into oblivion forever.  I am also constantly reminded that I was one of the bad guys, and am one of the bad guys, apart from the grace and mercy God has shown to me through his son Jesus.

—Pastor Jon Wymer

Filed Under: Christianity, Fundamentalism, The Problem of Evil, Weird 77 Comments

Why didn't God let Hitler be assassinated?

December 11, 2008 By Daniel Florien 82 Comments

Harry McCall asks a good question:

There were 42 failed attempts to kill Hitler…. If there is a God seated on his Royal Throne in Heaven, why did he not let [one of them succeed]?

Here are three possible answers:

  1. God couldn’t do anything about Hitler. But if that’s true, what kind of God is he? And if he can’t do anything about anything, why pray or worship him?
  2. God could do something about Hitler, but he chose not to. In other words, he would be the most evil being imaginable. If a man could easily stop the Nazis without any innocent deaths, but chose not to, wouldn’t he be evil?
  3. God doesn’t exist.

I’ll go with #3.

Filed Under: Christianity, Morality, The Problem of Evil 82 Comments
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