Imagine you are in church listening to the preacher when somebody barges in through a side door and starts complaining that the congregation is not living up to his expectations and he has decided to punish all of them, and their children as well.
Imagine your feelings if he ran around the pews slapping people on the head and screaming about the punishment he intends to inflict upon them.
Imagine your thoughts if he confronted a small family group and told the children that one day soon their parents are going to cook them and eat them!
Imagine your thoughts if he confronted a small family group and told the children that one day soon their parents are going to cook them and eat them!
Imagine your horror when you glimpsed a flash of maniacal glee on the interloper's face and realized that he was deadly serious; that he really did expect such things to happen and he was eager to see them happen.
What would you do? Would you nod your head approvingly? Or would you decide that the fellow had gone mad, and call for the police to come and lock him up?
If you are a Christian you have already nodded your head approvingly!
You have read your bible. You are familiar with the texts where god threatens to make people so hungry they will eat their own children. You have seen those texts and you have silently agreed with them. You have thought to yourself: "If the parents don't do what god tells them to do, then god is entitled to punish them - and if the children have to suffer; well god knows best (and I will not hear a bad word said against him)."
You have read your bible. You are familiar with the texts where god threatens to make people so hungry they will eat their own children. You have seen those texts and you have silently agreed with them. You have thought to yourself: "If the parents don't do what god tells them to do, then god is entitled to punish them - and if the children have to suffer; well god knows best (and I will not hear a bad word said against him)."
That's what Christians do. They make excuses for their god. If one of your neighbours goes off his head and starts threatening parishioners with cruel and unusual punishments you can immediately see the unfairness of the situation and call the police to put a stop to it. But you don't bat an eyelid when God orders the same punishments in the bible. Instead you say, "Hoorah for god, isn't he wonderful?" To put it bluntly - you are not a very nice person!
You think I'm being too harsh? Then I dare you to read any of these following bible texts to your children just before you send them off to bed tonight. You wouldn't dare would you? And we both know why, don't we? Because threats like that will frighten the little ones and give them nightmares that could last for years.
And don't try to wriggle out of it by saying that god merely made the threats, but didn't actually force anyone to kill and eat their own children. When the threats reach that level of depravity then the threats (on their own) are the problem. Your children would start wetting the bed again if you talked to them like this:
You think I'm being too harsh? Then I dare you to read any of these following bible texts to your children just before you send them off to bed tonight. You wouldn't dare would you? And we both know why, don't we? Because threats like that will frighten the little ones and give them nightmares that could last for years.
And don't try to wriggle out of it by saying that god merely made the threats, but didn't actually force anyone to kill and eat their own children. When the threats reach that level of depravity then the threats (on their own) are the problem. Your children would start wetting the bed again if you talked to them like this:
I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters (Jeremiah 19.9)The fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers. (Ezekiel 5.10)
Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. (Leviticus 26.29)
Thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters. (Deuteronomy 28.53)
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