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God-authorized Murder in the Bible (www.evilbible.com)
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[–] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

and it is only done if the majority of the town has two eyewitnesses testifying that over 50% of the individuals of the town worshipped idols after being warned that doing so carries the death penalty

You realize that's not better right? It's literally religious persecution as a law.

More absurdly, this would even apply to worship of gods that by all available evidence are in fact older than Yahweh.

Imagine someone suddenly coming up to you and saying you cannot worship Yahweh because Botar is the one true god and has been the only god in all of earth's history.

[–] randomredditor12345@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and it is only done if the majority of the town has two eyewitnesses testifying that over 50% of the individuals of the town worshipped idols after being warned that doing so carries the death penalty

You realize that's not better right? It's literally religious persecution as a law.

1- it's definitely better to kill a town where the majority have been convicted of idol worship as opposed to a case where there is a single idol worshipper

2- all other factors being equal, any legal system that requires jurisprudence is better than a like alternative that calls for vigilantism

More absurdly, this would even apply to worship of gods that by all available evidence are in fact older than Yahweh

I disagree that such beings actually exist within reality given that I believe that he is the author of reality itself.

[–] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By "older than" I don't mean those gods are actually real I mean that archeological evidence indicates that humanity believed in them long before anyone ever heard of Yahweh.

[–] randomredditor12345@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You made that clear when you said "by all available evidence". I was pointing out that in my interpretation of the evidence no god predates mine as I don't ascribe nearly as much weight to archaeological evidence and it's interpretations as I do with better established sciences