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As a work of satire, I laughed the entire way through. The people who came up with this are geniuses. As an actual religious accusation, it falls quite short.
Lets all agree for the purpose of my argument that a righteous Yahweh exists and that he exterminated all of those people? What of it? He is all knowing and all good, so he automatically knows who deserves life and who deserves death. If he acts on that knowledge, that's acting more like a judge than a murderer (insert whining of liberals here about the death penalty being murder anyway).
In regards to slavery, one only has to look at the conditions laid forth in the Bible about slavery and compare them to other societies at the time and to modern practices. Slavery meant servitude in the Israelite culture. Yahweh commanded that the slaves be treated with all respect and fairness. There was even a clause (albeit a rarely followed one) that commanded that all slaves be freed after seven years of servitude unless the slave loved his master so much that he became a slave for life. When this happened, the slave was largely considered a part of the family. In other societies at the time, slaves had no rights, were savagely and cruelly treated and had no way out of their life. Modern slavery and the slavery in America before the Civil War also falls short of the Jewish example.
As to the pornography, those are funny references but they were not at all intended in the way that you suggest just like the naked tribal women on the Discovery Channel aren't meant for jerking off
papermachesatan, you have provided me with hours of entertainment. I will pass your link on to all of my Christian friends and we will all proceed to laugh at how great your post is. Our beliefs, however, won't be changed.
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