One must wonder sometimes, if the infallible,
constant, eternal and unchanging God of Christianity changed his mind between the Old
and New Testaments! The O.T. God is one angry
and even vengeful dude: “Put every man
his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp,
and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his
neighbor.” And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and
there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. A small number when
compared to the Egyptian infants already massacred by God in order for things
to have proceeded even this far, but it helps to make the case for
“antitheism.” By this I mean the view that we ought to be glad that none of the
religious myths has any truth to it, or in it. The Bible may, indeed does,
contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery,
for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any
of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals. Of course the N.T. God has changed his tack
and, apparently his mind, if Jesus was correct. The problem he seems to correct God along the
way, Hmmmmm.
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