Atheists like to blame Christians for all kinds of bad things, but there's a contradiction in their

condemnation that actually provides evidence in favor of Christianity.

Consider Alex O'Connor's interview last month with William Lane Craig,

where the two discussed the Old Testament's references

to God commanding Israel to kill the men, women, and children

among the surrounding Canaanites.

Alex is sympathetic to the idea that defending this divine command is morally repugnant.

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

I'm interested in you share my assessment here that even if he's not correct, I can understand

why he would hear you say something like that and think that it's morally repugnant, that it's

revolting. and here's Richard

Dawkins expressing the same opinion. I feel such contempt for him because of his

I've known whether you've seen his what he says about the something about

the lights slaughtering the Midianites and...

Sam Harris makes similar moral accusations against Craig in his debate with him.

He commands as good, so when he commands that the Israelites to slaughter the Amalekites, that behavior becomes intrinsically good because

he commanded it.

Well here we're being offered, I'm glad he raised the issue of psychopathy. We're being offered a psychopathic and psychotic

moral attitude.

Alex, Richard Dawkins, and many other atheists seem to think Christians who defend the unrestricted killing of the Canaanites in the Old Testament

are doing something morally blameworthy in making that defense.

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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