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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Atheists like to blame Christians for all kinds of bad things, but there's a contradiction in their |
0:05.3 | condemnation that actually provides evidence in favor of Christianity. |
0:10.0 | Consider Alex O'Connor's interview last month with William Lane Craig, |
0:13.6 | where the two discussed the Old Testament's references |
0:16.6 | to God commanding Israel to kill the men, women, and children |
0:20.4 | among the surrounding Canaanites. |
0:22.2 | Alex is sympathetic to the idea that defending this divine command is morally repugnant. |
0:29.0 | You must understand how that sounds, saying it was a blessing for these children to be killed and go to God. I mean this is something that Dawkins quotes you on directly and |
0:39.4 | I'm interested in you share my assessment here that even if he's not correct, I can understand |
0:47.8 | why he would hear you say something like that and think that it's morally repugnant, that it's |
0:52.3 | revolting. and here's Richard |
0:53.6 | Dawkins expressing the same opinion. I feel such contempt for him because of his |
0:57.6 | I've known whether you've seen his what he says about the something about |
1:01.4 | the lights slaughtering the Midianites and... |
1:03.6 | Sam Harris makes similar moral accusations against Craig in his debate with him. |
1:08.0 | He commands as good, so when he commands that the Israelites to slaughter the Amalekites, that behavior becomes intrinsically good because |
1:16.2 | he commanded it. |
1:18.2 | Well here we're being offered, I'm glad he raised the issue of psychopathy. We're being offered a psychopathic and psychotic |
1:26.1 | moral attitude. |
1:27.1 | Alex, Richard Dawkins, and many other atheists seem to think Christians who defend the unrestricted killing of the Canaanites in the Old Testament |
1:35.5 | are doing something morally blameworthy in making that defense. |
1:39.7 | I'm not going to respond to that specific issue in the Bible in this episode. I'll include links in the |
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