Moral
59 entries.
| Sheet | Objection | |
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| Positions | The bible, by todays standards, evidences morals we reject. | Argument page → |
| Positions | God is unjust, repeatedly punishing the innocent. | Argument page → |
| Positions | God orders murder. | Argument page → |
| Positions | God acts like a spoiled toddler, not an enlightened benevolent super intelligence; God has remarkably low self esteem. | Argument page → |
| Positions | Slavery was acceptable, and even compelled by God. | Argument page → |
| Positions | Women in the bible are lesser and are reduced to property. | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Original Sin: 'It is not credible that a penalty should redress a fault, and that the innocent should pay for the guilty. The suffering of t… | Argument page → |
| Concepts | God as a moral being: 'God created the cultural isolation of the Hindus, he engineered the circumstance of their deaths in ignorance to reve… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Christianity's doctrine of vicarious atonement is inherently immoral scapegoating: humans are born guilty of 'original sin' through no fault… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Deuteronomy 22:13-21 prescribes stoning a bride to death if she cannot produce evidence of virginity ('did not bleed') on her wedding night. | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | The Bible commands women to be silent and submissive (1 Tim 2:11-14: women must learn in silence, may not teach or have authority over a man… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Leviticus 12:5 requires double the purification period after the birth of a girl versus a boy, implying that giving birth to a female child… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Proverbs 12:4 ('A good wife is the crown of her husband') treats a woman as her husband's accessory or possession. | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Numbers 15:32-36: a man is executed by stoning for the 'crime' of gathering sticks on the Sabbath. | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Leviticus 19:18 ('love your neighbor as yourself') defines 'neighbor' narrowly as a fellow Israelite, exposing the command as ethnocentric t… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Leviticus 26:29 threatens that continued disobedience will result in Israelites being forced to eat the flesh of their own children. | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | In 2 Kings 2:23-25, children mock the prophet Elisha for being bald, and God sends two bears to maul 42 of them to death — a grotesque overr… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Deuteronomy 22:23-29 requires a man who rapes an unbetrothed virgin to pay her father 50 shekels of silver and marry her, with no right of d… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Deuteronomy 22:23-24 commands that a betrothed virgin who is raped/lies with a man in town, and the man, both be stoned to death, because 's… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Numbers 31:17-18 has Moses order the killing of all Midianites except virgin girls, who are kept; Deuteronomy 20:10-18 commands total destru… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Exodus 22:29, 13:2, and Leviticus 27:28-29 appear to require dedicating/devoting the firstborn; Jephthah literally sacrifices his daughter (… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Leviticus 20:13 and 18:22 call male same-sex intercourse 'an abomination' worthy of death; Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, and 1 Timot… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Judges 19-21 narrates the gang rape and murder of the Levite's concubine, her dismemberment, the resulting civil war against Benjamin, and t… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Leviticus 25:44-46 permits Israelites to own foreign slaves as permanent, inheritable property; Ephesians 6:5 and 1 Peter 2:18-19 command sl… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Leviticus 10:1-2 has God kill Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu with fire for offering 'unauthorized fire'/incense in his presence. | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Exodus 22:20 prescribes death ('utterly destroyed') for anyone who sacrifices to a god other than the LORD. | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Psalm 137:9 declares 'happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks' — an apparent celebration of infanticide a… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Matthew 10:35-37 has Jesus say he came to set family members against each other and that anyone who loves father, mother, son, or daughter m… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Matthew 5:33-36 has Jesus command 'do not swear at all,' whether by heaven, earth, Jerusalem, or one's own head, reasoning that one cannot m… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Acts 4:32-34 describes the earliest Jerusalem church holding all possessions in common, with no one claiming private ownership. | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Deuteronomy 23:2 bars 'those born of an illicit union' (traditionally rendered 'bastards') from the assembly of the LORD, to the tenth gener… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Deuteronomy 23:1 excludes a man 'whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off' from the assembly of the LORD. | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Proverbs 12:21 ('there shall no evil happen to the just') implies a strict retribution principle whereby all suffering reflects the sufferer… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Two linked objections: (a) Proverbs 12:2 ('a good man obtaineth favour of the LORD') seems to contradict Romans 9:16 ('not of him that wille… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Genesis 20: Abraham and Sarah deceive Abimelech, claiming Sarah is only Abraham's sister; God closes the wombs of Abimelech's entire househo… | Argument page → |
| God the Angry Snowflake | Hosea 13:16 depicts God ordering or gleefully causing Samaria's infants to be dashed to pieces and its pregnant women ripped open — proof of… | Argument page → |
| God the Angry Snowflake | Leviticus 20:27 prescribes death by stoning for mediums and those with 'familiar spirits' — God executing people for practicing psychic phen… | Argument page → |
| God the Angry Snowflake | Exodus 22:20 decrees that anyone sacrificing to a god other than Yahweh 'shall be utterly destroyed' — God demanding the execution of religi… | Argument page → |
| God the Angry Snowflake | Deuteronomy 13 commands that if a town is led into worshipping other gods, the Israelites must kill every inhabitant, including livestock, a… | Argument page → |
| God the Angry Snowflake | Exodus 22:18, 'Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live,' commands the killing of witches — a text with a direct, documented body count thr… | Argument page → |
| God the Angry Snowflake | Deuteronomy 22:20-21 commands that a newly married woman be stoned to death at her father's door if her husband alleges, and 'evidence' fail… | Argument page → |
| God the Angry Snowflake | 2 Kings 2:23-24 has Elisha curse a group of boys who mock his bald head, after which two bears emerge and maul 42 of them — God (or His prop… | Argument page → |
| God the Angry Snowflake | Romans 5:12 teaches that through one man (Adam) sin and death entered the world and spread to all people — God holding all humanity guilty a… | Argument page → |
| God the Angry Snowflake | Revelation 20:15 states that anyone not found written in the Book of Life is 'cast into the lake of fire' — an eternal, disproportionate pun… | Argument page → |
| God the Angry Snowflake | Deuteronomy 28:58-68 threatens that disobedience will result in God sending His people back to Egypt in ships to be sold into slavery, with… | Argument page → |
| God the Angry Snowflake | Malachi 2:1-3 has God threaten to 'spread dung on your faces' — a crude, degrading, almost cartoonish act of humiliation unbefitting a trans… | Argument page → |
| Child Sacrifice | Genesis 22: God commands Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac; Abraham builds an altar, binds Isaac, and raises the knife, before the angel of… | Argument page → |
| Unjust God | God imposes corporate/collective punishment on the innocent: seven sons of Saul are impaled to atone for Saul's massacre of the Gibeonites (… | Argument page → |
| Unjust God | Through Nathan, God declares he will 'take David's wives... and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in broad daylig… | Argument page → |
| Unjust God | God strikes Ananias and Sapphira dead for not donating the full proceeds of a land sale to the apostles (Acts 5:1-11) — capital punishment f… | Argument page → |
| Sex and Slavery | Slaves CANNOT consent. They are property. Your car does not consent to being driven. | Argument page → |
| Sex and Slavery | Slavery in Egypt: Reisner Papyrus (19th cent. BCE), El Lahun Papyri, Brooklyn Papyrus, Berlin Papyri. | Argument page → |
| Sex and Slavery | Where to purchase slaves and what to do with them: Leviticus 25:44-46 (buy slaves from surrounding nations, possess them as inheritance); Ep… | Argument page → |
| Sex and Slavery | Criminals who can't pay restitution become slaves. No jail or imprisonment. (Exodus 22:2) | Argument page → |
| Sex and Slavery | Attack a city; if they surrender, they are your slaves; if they resist, kill the men and keep the rest as slaves (Deut 20:10-15). Female war… | Argument page → |
| Sex and Slavery | Abraham had sex with Hagar, his wife Sarah's slave (Genesis 16:4) — 'Rape?' Jacob had sex with his wife's handmaidens (Genesis 30:4) — 'Rape… | Argument page → |
| Sex and Slavery | needs review Bare scripture references with no argument or commentary stated in the source rows: Leviticus 19:20 (row 8: no claim text, no commentary giv… | Argument page → |
| Sex and Slavery | Islamic hadith material on Muhammad and slavery: (1) Muhammad reportedly reversed a dying man's emancipation of six slaves, freeing only two… | Argument page → |
| Ignorant God | God doesn't understand female anatomy — citing Deuteronomy 22:13-21, the law addressing a husband who slanders his new wife by falsely claim… | Argument page → |