One More Reason Religion Is So Messed Up: Respected Theologian Defends Genocide and Infanticide
"A respected, mainstream theologian is seriously arguing that as long as God gives the thumbs-up, it's okay to kill pretty much anybody.
William Lane Craig "Respected Theologian Defends Infanticide."
Why did this story not make headlines?
In a recent post on his Reasonable Faith site, famed Christian apologist and debater William Lane Craig published an explanation for why the genocide and infanticide ordered by God against the Canaanites in the Old Testament was morally defensible. For God, at any rate -- and for people following God's orders.
Short version: When guilty people got killed, they deserved it because they were guilty and bad... and when innocent people got killed, even when innocent babies were killed, they went to Heaven, and it was all hunky dory in the end. . . . . "
Dr. William Lane Craig is a supreme example of how attempting to explain the bloodlust of the Bible can seriously warp your mind. And it is not just the crazyness 'Big Three' of monotheism [Judaism, Christianity and Islam], but if you dig deeply into nearly all of the world's prominent religions, you will find that the 'gods' are some pretty psychopathic cookies, and if they were around today most would be confined to mental wards at the local hospital.
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