The God Of The Bible Commands All Men To Stone Rebellious Children To Death. (In The Quran There Is Nothing As Cruel As God's Deuteronomic Demand That Your Own Children Be Killed For The Triviality Of Adolescent Rebelliousness)

 

Alan: Religious conservatives assume that judgment, blame and punishment are primary. 

In my view, we are all appalling sinners who had best pray for The Court's Mercy. 

Absent mercy, every one of us is queued for a rocky ride - whether in "the after-life" or as we review what we have done from the vantage of our death bed. 

Christians And "Christians" Choose Mercy, Love & Forgiveness, Or Retribution & Punishment

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/christians-and-christians-must-choose.html

Even God Can't Save You From Hatred, Resentment And Carrying A Grudge

http://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/12/even-god-cant-save-you-from-hatred.html

Biblical Literalism And Bibliolatry Are Open Invitations To Self-Righteousness, Wrath And Hatred

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/05/biblical-literalism-and-bibliolatry.html

The God Of The Bible Commands All Men To Stone Rebellious Children To Death. (In The Quran There Is Nothing As Cruel As God's Deuteronomic Demand That Your Own Children Be Killed For The Triviality Of Adolescent Rebelliousness)

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/09/alan-religious-conservatives-assume.html

Biblical Violence: Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran? Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2023/10/biblical-violence-is-bible-more-violent.html

"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/is-bible-more-violent-than-quran-npr.html

Worst Bible Passages

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/worst-bible-passages.html

Biblical Literalism And The Cultivation Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblical-literalism-and-cultivation-of.html

Are Pro-Lifers The Deadliest "Baby Killers" Of All? 

http://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2023/06/are-pro-lifers-deadliest-baby-killers.html

Is it not plausible - even probable - that God, in "His" inscrutability, and prompted by His "love for the world," is at least as merciful as "He" is judgmental? 

Or, as often happens in human courts, is mercy not likely to follow judgment? Perhaps by suspending judgement? Or even by being indulgent - clemency or a commuted sentence? 

Would mercy not, at minimum, put an end to "failed experiments" by ushering them out of existence rather than torment them, forever, in an Unquenchable Lake of Fire? 

What adamantine hardness instills the unshakable belief that Judgment is primary? 

Unalterable. Final. Eternally punishing. 

Such judgment is not human but lithic - something inorganic, something inhuman. 

Not the image in which we are made. 

As a rule, rigidity infects absolutists, spellbound by the Thunder Sky God who rules large swathes of the Old Testament. 

Afraid to anger this tyrant, "the fearful" fall prey to a frame-of-mind we might call "Latter Day Stockholm Syndrome." 

To break this "enchantment," it is helpful to recall that "Thunder Sky God" ordained --- not merely the "moral option" but the moral obligation --- that "rebellious children" be stoned to death by the collective effort of every male in the community. 

Hey, "conservative" "Christian"! 

Why aren't you doing your part?

(And if this "command" doesn't "count," is it not possible that other Old Testamental commands don't count either?)

We Are Re-Made In The Image Of Our God (Or Gods). This Bedrock Fact Makes Me Increasingly Critical Of America As A Judeo-Christian Culture That Worships A God Who Is Wrathful And Punitive. Trump And His Cultists Comprise Incontrovertible Proof That The United States Of America - Which Has Always Been A Punitive, Retributive Society - Now Genuflects At The Altar Of Cruelty. Cruelty Is Not An Aberration. It Is The Central Point Of Unbridled, "Christian" "Conservative" Capitalism. Let's Make Up Our Minds. John The Apostle Says "God Is Love." Is "He?" Or Is God Punitive And Hellishly Cruel? Do Not Look Away. Do Not Sweep This Under The Rug. Be Whatever You Want To Be. But Do Have The Integrity To Own Up To The God You Worship, And In Whose Image You Continually Re-Make Yourself

http://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2023/06/we-are-re-made-in-image-of-our-god-and.html

In essence, the God of Israel commanded the slaughter of children for the crime of... being children.

Islam never conceived a moral mandate as barbaric as killing one's own kids, and not compassionately "as one might put down a rabid dog" but killing them in concert for the trivial "offense" of "passing through adolescence." 

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 is not now, nor ever was, "the word of God." http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+21%3A18-21&version=ERV  

If my view is wrong, I hope to be set straight. 

Absent correction, I hope "the spellbound" will ask why "this" God is worshiped uncritically. 

Lamentably, "fundamentalists" proclaim a great deal of nonsense, not because The Living God requires "defense," but because they must defend their own "card houses." 

Replace self-certain self-righteousness with real faith - shadowed by doubt - and it no longer matters if one's house of card collapses.

Time For Catholicism To "Shelve" Traditions And Texts That Represent God As A Terrorist
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/time-to-expunge-catholicism-of.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Religion

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on-religion.html