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The god of the Bible is evil!

Here's a great YouTube video that talks about how the god of the Old Testament is an evil being. I have always believed ever since I was a little kid that the god of the Old Testament was evil because of all the terrible things he's done. All the people he's killed. From genocide to human sacrifice as a burnt offering.

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I often reference Jeptheh in Judges 11, I have been threatened serious bodily harm by believers for doing so.
James25 · 61-69, M
@NativePortlander1970 I am sorry to hear that happened to you it is wrong to threaten people with physical harm it is wrong to threatened people period
ElegantAlex · 18-21, F
@NativePortlander1970 Jeptheh (or Yiftach from the actual Hebrew text) was a complicated character - in some ways a very positive example and in some ways extremely negative. I don't know how you referenced him.
James25 · 61-69, M
@ElegantAlex interesting I will take a look at it
@ElegantAlex By how he was massively deluded and convinced by schitzophrenic voices to butcher and burn sacrifice his own daughter.
ElegantAlex · 18-21, F
@NativePortlander1970 He was not lacking in the "issues" department. The scriptural text establishes that was knowledgeable of his heritage and history, capable of carrying on diplomacy and military matters. But he was clearly uneducated in Jewish law pertaining to vows. The Oral Law elucidates this aspect more fully than the scripture but he clearly did not avail himself of those authorities. This was unfortunate.
@ElegantAlex He heard voices prompting him to make that heinious murderous vow, THIS is WHY religion is so dangerous and demented. I know exactly what the vow in the book of numbers expects.
ElegantAlex · 18-21, F
@NativePortlander1970 The text states that the spirit of G-d infused Jephtah to carry out his military objectives to destroy Ammon. It does not in any way state that it directed him to sacrifice his daughter. He was not a learned person and somewhat removed from Jewish observance and tradition at the time.

Most rabbinic commentators hold that he did not actually kill his daughter. But as she was childless and she undertook to remain so for the rest of her life it is considered that she was like a dead person.

The rabbis also hold that the vow, insofar as it contravened a divine law against human sacrifice was unenforceable. Jephtah, being removed from Jewish tradition at the time, did not understand this.
@ElegantAlex I'd say this says it all clear cut, no pun intended.