Monday, April 8, 2013

A continuation of describing God's morals.


I was reading in the bible and I came across this:

Deuteronomy 13:6-11 (NIV)
"6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again."

I interpret this as that God does not care what the individuals are believing, all he want is to suppress them from sharing their religious beliefs with others. And the way he achieves that is by creating a fear from expressing your opinion by brutally killing those who do share their opinions.
So lets say there were two guys who had a belief in the same God, but a different God than "the Lord". One of the guys expresses their beliefs, and he is killed under God's command. The other guy sees that, so he does not express his belief and lives happily ever after. That is God violating freedom of speech, which is a moral way of thinking that human society developed later in our history which has proven to be a good thing.

Just some more food for thought.

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