Cosmic Murder Trial!

[fschmidt]

Charge 1: I am not Christian, I follow the Old Testament, so not relevant.

Charge 2: Everything is attributed to Yahweh, all life and death, so I see no point to pick on the example of King David's first born son. No other god or religion prevents death, so Yahweh isn't to blame.

As for killing the firstborn of Egypt, this is probably done by Moses's people in God's name, and good for Moses. The Egyptians were degenerate scum at the time, much like modern Westerners, so they certainly deserved death. This is also a good example of how only terrorism works against a powerful corrupt empire. The Muslim Charlie Hebdo attack was a modern example of this.

Charge 3: This was at a time when the Israelites were continuously at war. The people were irresponsible and strict discipline was needed to get these people into shape. Without strict discipline, all the Israelites would have been wiped out, so this was justified.

Charge 4: I don't take Genesis literally, but the Noah story is my favorite story of all time. The basic point is that humanity can degenerate into complete shit at which point the only solution is mass death to clean the gene pool. This happened to Europeans after the fall of Rome in the Middle Ages. Without the mass deaths caused by disease during this time, Europeans would have never genetically recovered from the degeneracy of Rome. Clearly it is time again for genetic cleansing. Humanity has turned to shit, this time a global scale, so the Noah story applies now more than ever. The vast majority of humanity needs to die if the human gene pool is to ever recover. So let us all pray to Yahweh for the death of most of humanity, and the recovery of the human gene pool.

[Cornfed]

Is the presumption that everyone on this particular mortal coil is supposed to be immortal for some reason? If not, this whole tread is stupid.

[MrPeabody]

Israeli archeologists say that the exodus out of egypt and subsequent violent invasion of the levant never happened. So alot of your evidence has to be thrown out as fiction.

https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Unearthed- ... 0684869136

[Cornfed]

Israeli archeologists say that the exodus out of egypt and subsequent violent invasion of the levant never happened.

They have been saying stuff like that forever despite the fact that they keep being proven wrong.

[MrPeabody]

But they were not able to find any evidence of a large group of people living in the desert at the time of the exodus. Not one piece of evidence. And archeology is sensitive enough today that they can detect a fire made by men 20,000 years ago.

[Cornfed]

But they were not able to find any evidence of a large group of people living in the desert at the time of the exodus. Not one piece of evidence.

For a long time they were unable to find any evidence of the Hittite Empire, until they did. Same with the existence of King David. Much like with the sun rising in the east every morning, you would think with them constantly declaring the Bible wrong only to be proven wrong themselves, you might begin to recognize a pattern at some point. With the Exodus they are quite likely looking in the wrong time period.

[MrPeabody]

The book "Bible Unearth" by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman argues that there is no archaeological evidence to support the traditional account of the Exodus as described in the Bible. The authors suggest that the story of the Exodus was likely a myth created by later Israelite writers to explain their origins and justify their claims to the land of Canaan.

According to the authors, there is no archaeological evidence to support the idea that the Israelites were ever slaves in Egypt, or that they wandered in the desert for forty years before entering Canaan. They argue that the biblical account of the Exodus is based on later interpretations and embellishments of earlier oral traditions.

The lack of archaeological evidence for the Exodus has been a topic of debate among scholars for many years. While some archaeologists and biblical scholars continue to search for evidence of the Exodus, others believe that the story is largely mythical and that any historical events that may have inspired it have been lost to time.

The estimated time of the Exodus is a subject of debate among scholars, and there is no definitive answer. According to the biblical account, the Exodus took place during the reign of the pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled from around 1279 to 1213 BCE. However, many scholars believe that the biblical account is a later interpretation of earlier oral traditions, and that the actual events may have taken place much earlier.

[Cornfed]

The book "Bible Unearth" by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman argues that there is no archaeological evidence to support the traditional account of the Exodus as described in the Bible.

So in order to get money they published a book saying they had nothing to report, just like all the other investigations in Biblical history had nothing to report, until they did.

[MrPeabody]

The book "Bible Unearth" by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman argues that there is no archaeological evidence to support the traditional account of the Exodus as described in the Bible.

So in order to get money they published a book saying they had nothing to report, just like all the other investigations in Biblical history had nothing to report, until they did.

Not quite. They present evidence that supports the theory that the Hebrews emerged from the Canaanites. The early Israelites were actually a group of Canaanites who gradually separated themselves from their Canaanite neighbors.

The book discusses evidence such as the similarities between Hebrew and Canaanite language, the archaeological record showing that the early Israelites lived in the same type of houses, ate the same food, and practiced the same religion as the Canaanites. Additionally, the book examines the lack of archaeological evidence for the Exodus and conquest of Canaan as described in the Bible.

In other words, they always lived in Canaan and were never in Egypt, at least as a large group.

[Cornfed]

The book "Bible Unearth" by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman argues that there is no archaeological evidence to support the traditional account of the Exodus as described in the Bible.

I don't know, but the argument here makes the issue seem cut and dried.