It has been over a year since I contributed to Secular Outpost. Multiple responsibilities and distractions took me away. I would like to return to SO with a post that is somewhat tangential to our usual discussion topics here, but the issue is so important that I think we need to discuss it whenever we can: I am an old white man. What can I say about racism? Whatever I say, I am sure it will not be enough, since… Read more
June 25, 2020
The Euthyphro Dilemma, Part 6: Arbitrariness and Normative Impotence
June 25, 2020 By Jason Thibodeau
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Here, again, are the two options of the Euthyphro dilemma: (I) The reason that God commands that we perform morally obligatory actions is that they are morally obligatory. (II) Morally obligatory actions are morally obligatory in virtue of the fact that God commands that we perform them. I have written five parts in this series about the Euthyphro Dilemma, the overarching aim of which has been to show that the dilemma provides the basis of a decisive objection to the… Read more
June 18, 2020
Was Joshua’s Slaughter of the Canaanites Morally Justified? Part 13: OT on Child Sacrifice
June 18, 2020 By Bradley Bowen
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WHY ARE FICTIONAL OLD TESTAMENT STORIES MORALLY RELEVANT? There probably was no Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, and there probably was no Conquest of Canaan by the Israelites. These stories are either pure fiction, or they are legends that have only bits and pieces of historical truth in them. So, if the stories about Joshua leading the Israelites to MERCILESSLY SLAUGHTER every man, woman, and child in the towns of the Promised Land are fiction or legend, why get… Read more
May 28, 2020
Was Joshua’s Slaughter of the Canaanites Morally Justified? Part 12: Playing For All the Marbles
May 28, 2020 By Bradley Bowen
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WILLIAM CRAIG ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN Before I examine the question of whether the Old Testament clearly indicates that ALL of the peoples living in the towns of the Promised Land regularly and frequently practiced child sacrifice in the decades prior to the (alleged) Conquest of Canaan by Joshua and the Israelites, I’m going to take a look at what William Lane Craig says about the significance of the issue of the command of Jehovah to… Read more
May 23, 2020
Was Joshua’s Slaughter of the Canaanites Morally Justified? Part 11: Moral Warrant
May 23, 2020 By Bradley Bowen
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CHILD SACRIFICE AS A MORAL JUSTIFICATION FOR MERCILESS SLAUGHTER In the previous post, I examined the following historical question: Did the all of the various peoples who were actually living in the towns of the Promised Land between 1350 and 1250 BCE regularly and frequently practice child sacrifice? I reviewed the first four pieces of evidence provided by the CLUELESS Christian apologist Clay Jones for the claim that the people in the towns of the Promised Land at the time of the… Read more
May 19, 2020
Was Joshua’s Slaughter of the Canaanites Morally Justified? Part 10: Child Sacrifice
May 19, 2020 By Bradley Bowen
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DEFENSE #1 FAILS Here are the defenses of Jehovah and Joshua to which I am replying: Joshua’s MERCILESS SLAUGHTER of the Canaanites (and Jehovah’s command to perform this slaughter) was MORALLY JUSTIFIED because: 1. The people in the Canaanite towns were given the chance to flee, before Joshua and the Israelites MERCILESSLY SLAUGHTERED men, women, and children in the towns. 2. The people in the Canaanite towns belonged to a culture where some people did “some pretty disgusting things” like… Read more
May 15, 2020
Was Joshua’s Slaughter of the Canaanites Morally Justified? Part 9: Joshua
May 15, 2020 By Bradley Bowen
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MOVING ON FROM MOSES TO JOSHUA The evidence from Numbers and Deuteronomy indicates that Jehovah did NOT demand that advanced warnings be given to towns that Moses and the Israelites were going to attack so that people had the opportunity to leave the town and thus avoid being MERCILESSLY SLAUGHTERED, and that Moses did NOT order advanced warnings to be given to any of the towns that the Israelites attacked while he was leading them, and that no such advanced… Read more
May 13, 2020
Was Joshua’s Slaughter of the Canaanites Morally Justified? Part 8: Warnings?
May 13, 2020 By Bradley Bowen
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I promised that I would address the question of whether, according to the OT, Moses and Joshua consistently provided advanced warnings before they attacked a town or city, so that people had at least a few days to leave and escape “utter destruction” and “extermination” by the army of Israel, and I will begin to address that question in this post. TWO FINAL NAILS IN THE COFFIN OF THE LOCKER-ROOM TALK DEFENSE However, before I get into the question… Read more
May 10, 2020
Was Joshua’s Slaughter of the Canaanites Morally Justified? Part 7: Rant Off
May 10, 2020 By Bradley Bowen
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***RANT OFF*** I’m feeling much better now, thank you. Haven’t been up on that particular soapbox for that long before. Did feel pretty good to stomp on the that was just “locker room” talk by Jehovah bullshit. Now that I have that out of my system, it is time to return to my original task, which was to reply to a different attempt to justify Jehovah’s command to MERCILESSLY SLAUGHTER Canaanites, including civilians, including elderly women and men, husbands and… Read more
May 7, 2020
Was Joshua’s Slaughter of the Canaanites Morally Justified? Part 6: King of Sexism
May 7, 2020 By Bradley Bowen
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JEHOVAH: THE KING OF SEXISM There is a videotape of Donald Trump saying this: “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful [women]—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything … Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” [from a SLATE article, emphasis added: Trump Was Recorded in 2005 Bragging About Grabbing Women “by the Pussy”] Trump might soon point… Read more
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