A significant portion of the World we live in today (although, thankfully, a smaller and smaller proportion) believe that the first five books of the Bible (known as the Pentateuch, the [written] Torah or the Tawrat) are divine texts… to one extent or another.
Oftentimes, these self-same believers will utilize “logical” arguments to attempt to demonstrate the existence of the horrific deity portrayed in its pages.
One of these arguments that always sticks in my craw is the “argument from morality”… and, worse, the half-baked apologetic that if I criticize the religion, I am doing so by “borrowing their worldview” – apparently, they seem to think (and I use that word quite liberally here) that without their supposed deity being atop everything else we couldn’t even conceive of morality…
Well, I don’t particularly want to get into those weeds here again today (but I will if you lead me)…
Today I want to know from anybody who thinks that the Bible accurately depicts history and reality and divine reality…
Can you conceive of any situation in which it might be morally acceptable to compel a parent to publicly torture their own child to death?
Because from where I’m sat, a religion than can cause a person to defend that is obviously highly corrosive to human morality.