Excuses excuses and excuse

Most of us can agree that r*pe and slavery are egregious and abhorrent things, so why do christians make every excuse for laws where such things are permitted (ie Deuteronomy 21:10-14 and Leviticus 25: 44-46) they will make any and every excuse for these verses and not see how psychotic their arguments are.

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Soossie

The thing is you cannot judge history and what was written then by your modern standards ….

Morality, and life standards have changed, and religion has played a major role and has been a huge help in changing things for better….

NerdyPotato · M

@Soossie very true! So to remain meaningful, the Bible needs a major update?

Khonsu · 26-30, M

@Soossie 1) you can literally judge history
2) These people claimed to have had divine guidance but their laws just so happen to resemble the laws of the surrounding nations which is something that is conveniently and often overlooked

Soossie

@NerdyPotato

Maybe …. But more importantly human himself needs a major update …

Soossie

@Khonsu

1. No …. History cannot and should not be judged as life style of past (good or bad) was a norm then … I’m not talking about people who acted against norm, but history itself …

2. If that divine guidance was only for the surrounding nations, then it could and it would never be spread to other nations around the world… if it did, it was because people needed and accepted the guidance wholeheartedly …

Khonsu · 26-30, M

@Soossie “ 1. No …. History cannot and should not be judged as life style of past (good or bad) was a norm then … I’m not talking about people who acted against norm, but history itself”

That’s the problem that people don’t seem to understand You have a group that claims to have divine guidance meaning they shouldn’t be the norm. If your divine laws resemble the laws of the “heathen” nations around you can you really say they’re divine. No they’re basing laws on the cultural norms. And you have people here today that cannot reconcile with that and make every excuse possible. We literally have politicians trying to bring us back to the Bronze Age.

“If that divine guidance was only for the surrounding nations, then it could and it would never be spread to other nations around the world… if it did, it was because people needed and accepted the guidance wholeheartedly”

You might want to reword this because either you misread the argument or don’t know what the actual argument is. Also that last part you seem tobbe ignorant of the of the crusades where people were tortured and killed for not being christian. Or how Native American children were kidnapped to be converted into Christians, a lot of those children died brutal deaths btw. I can literally bring up example after example of this. Christianity did not spread through people accepting it wholeheartedly it was spread through colonialism and violence.