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True and pure religion goes above and beyond simple morality. It goes into extending one's self into loving and helping those in need.
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It sure does. Religion is for bloodthirsty psychopaths.True and pure religion goes above and beyond simple morality. It goes into extending one's self into loving and helping those in need.
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The Bible commands nobody to do any of those things listed in that picture. How do we know? Those commands were given to one country, to Ancient Israel. Ancient Israel isn't around today. But, when Ancient Israel was commanded, it was for beneficial things, like ridding the earth of the ungodly people. Ancient Israel didn't carry out their marching orders very well, so we have multitudes of liars, like you, around today.
The New Testament is for people today, and it has none of those directions/instructions for people of today. Why not? Because Ancient Israel didn't do the job that they were supposed to do, so God has found something else that works better... preaching.
And who wrote (or inspired) the OT? According to your own mythology, it was Jesus himself (as he, God the Father and the Holy Spirit are the same entity). What does it tell you about God's (Jesus') character?
Killing children? C'mon, Hitler was more selective in his killing than your Jesus character.
You seem to forget this part. You are enjoying an evening at home with your children and your wife. Some thugs crash the door down, tie you up, and proceed to rape and torture your wife and kids right in front of your eyes, for hours, before they finally murdered them.
Obviously you are tied up, so you can't do anything. So, you say, "Good work guys. I enjoyed the show," right? You would be happy if some thugs did such to your family, right?
Isn't it more likely that if you survived the ordeal, that you would work with law enforcement as hard as you could, to track those guys down to see justice done to them? And if you had the opportunity to literally punish some of them yourself with your fists... or maybe a baseball bat... wouldn't you do it?
God made the world and people out of love. Everything He did to punish evil people, he did because they were torturing and murdering His children. His law enforcement was Ancient Israel, some of whom were tortured and murdered by the evil thugs of the day.
And here you go, being a hypocrite about the things that God does, and becoming one of the evil thugs thereby. Be happy and be afraid, that God in his mercy and patience regarding you, allows you to live a little longer so that you have a chance to turn to Jesus-salvation.
Have you completely lost your marbles? We are talking about killing children who cursed or disobeyed their parents.
Your God/Jesus is a bloodthirsty psychopath. If some politician would come up with a bill that outlined to kill people for the reasons specified in the Bible, he or she would be asked to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Are you even reading my posts?