In Defense of Killing Babies

[stromboli]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lmi4YJo1tU

[Solitary]

I don't even know what to say. I'll try: The whole Christian dogma, as well as others, are so silly and ridiculous I can't understand how any adult can believe or have faith in it, especially in this day and age with the knowledge we have. They think they have knowledge when all they have is ignorance. Solitary

[AllPurposeAtheist]

People must have been really really really really really REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY bad in Noahs time.  You know,  the "husband" or daddy has breakfast or whatever,  kisses Mrs Really Bad and says, "Honey, I'm going to go be really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD.
Make sure to call the insurance company and make the flood insurance payment.  Luv ya!"

Sorry, that's all I could think of. 

[PickelledEggs]

That is the greatest thing I've watched all day

Are we having the Annual Summer Baby Roast again this year, btw? We can start with the murder-babies

[Solitary]

I think we should start with these two:

[aileron]

I love this guy's Mr. Deity series.  Nice to see he's still active.

[EldonG]

Go Mr Diety!

Great stuff.  :)

[elconquistador]

Wow! Thanks for sharing! I've never heard of this guy before. Very entertaining. :)

[Screaming Mime]

Surprised no one's made any remarks about abortion yet!

In all seriousness, it really could be the most "moral story ever told"; not by our standards, but by the standard of morality that was dominant when the story was written. The sons paid for the sins of the fathers (to the fourth generation sometimes...guess the Kim family of North Korea was reading the Bible despite banning it), so the baby thing might have been less of an issue. Families were sort of lumped together sometimes, and were seen as an extension of the father; they wouldn't have been considerered people in the same way that adult men at the head of their households were, at least by the people originally listening to the story.

The idea of a Great Flood also hammers the point home...the cleansing imagery that is associated BOTH with genocides and morality is employed here. People commit genocide because they think it is morally good to do so, or more accurately, that the "morally polluted" people don't deserve to live. They need to be scrubbed away, lest they "contaminate" the "good and pure people". And goodness and purity are very much linked in the biblical language, hence imagery of our sins being washed away...of our scarlet stains being purged and us being made "white as snow".

I think this is a dangerous human tendency and a bad source of morality, to say the least, but to say God lacks morality is not quite right in my opinion; he just has too much of it.

[Geebob]

Cheers for sharing this, had a good laugh watching it.

I think we're all just god's version of the Sims game!