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Ok Steve, you have obvious difficulties in following an argument written in prose, so let's boil it down to point by point for you...not that I have too many hopes for success... 1. You claim that your God/Joshua were justified in killing ALL the Canaanite babies, because they were going to be...

So, you do agree that there is a "bad" side to what your God is claimed to be about....excellent, that's progress...! Except we were speaking specifically about the people your God had slaughtered. So you're trying to change the subject, as you always do when your argument is failing....so...

More garbage.... They came back?? After being slaughtered, every man, woman and child came back?? I thought resurrection was a trick performed by only a select few Steve...!?? And of course the Bible claims that your God is loving...it's a self-serving document! It wasn't written by people...

Steve, you are simply unbelievable...I'm beginning to think you're an atheist that has planted himself amongst the theists, just to make them look bad...! Watch this ridiculous argument..... So, the babies that were slaughtered by Joshua (which was ALL of them!) would have been sacrificed...

"Information breeds confidence, silence breeds fear." Jed Bartlet.

You won't debate the issues because you can't... You either throw up a wall of rambling text that has little to do with the issue, or you you start bleating about verses being out of "context", or you whine that you are being picked on by the nasty ol' atheists...! So, if you have an...

All morality is subjective Steve. It's why we no longer do many of those things that were commonplace in the Bible. Only the "evil" we're punished Steve? Yeah, sure....all those babies slaughtered while they were at their mothers' breasts.....all those unborn ripped from the womb.....all those...

Ummm.....that's kinda the point... DogmaHunter is right....

Except it really doesn't cover "you shall take slaves from the FOREIGNERS among you" does it...?

As has been explained to you many times, from the same place that you do!! This is why you and I have the same, or very similar, moral code. Neither of us would ever sacrifice one of our children. Neither one of us would ever enslave someone. We wouldn't seek to kill someone because they have...

How about something dealing with the care and nurture of children? All we ever seem to hear in those horrible stories is how children can be sacrificed, slaughtered, raped, beaten or sold into slavery. But never that they should be loved and cherished...

No, as has been repeatedly explained to you, the reason that your and my moral stances are very similar has NOTHING to do with us both having a "sense of the spiritual"...! It has MUCH more to do with the realisation that you put your religion behind you when considering moral issues. You...

Now, young Steven..... So far, you have indicated to me that you are opposed to 3 practices that are condoned or supported by the Bible... You don't hold with slavery... You don't hold with slaughtering those whose religion offends you... You don't hold with murdering your prisoners...

From human beings, living in ordered societies, using their empathy towards one another and coming to the realisation that such moral codes benefit all...and in doing so, also benefit the individual... We have modified our codes over time as we have moved from more isolated, independent...

No,they don't, as much as you'd desperately like to convince yourself....the behaviour of quantum particles has been conducted entirely through natural processes... Our reality has had its boundaries pushed all through history...we once thought it impossible to fly, to travel through space...

Don't think I've ever actively tried to 'convert' anyone, but I have witnessed cases of people dropping their faith, once they became encouraged to think rationally.... Of course, they may have already been on that path....

Steve, name me ONE scientific discovery that points to a supernatural cause...just one... Because, what you are doing is confusing "we don't know" with "supernatural"... I realise that you are fragile emotionally, but the best way to overcome ignorance is through reason and rational...

No......it doesn't....

I wasn't talking about the morality of war, per se....I was referring to morality of slaughtering a group of people because their religious practices offend you... You'll have to ask your god that one, because it apparently commanded it to be done on several occasions.... I have no...

You're having trouble with the language aren't you...? I was referring to such behaviour NOW, not in the past.....I wanted Steve to tell me if he finds such behaviour immoral NOW..... Please don't try to teach someone who actually still uses the English language......the word is...