The God of the old testament is not immoral.

"This debate is about whether the God of the old testament is immoral or not! " Ever time I state why he"s immoral, You say if you would like to address the moral argument message me and we"ll debate that separately. . . You did it in your refute just now. . . I keep telling you he"s immoral and stating why and you don"t want to discuss that and want to have the "moral debate" elsewhere. Like, Wut? I"m familiar with the bible and it"s translations. I"m from a Christian family and was raised my whole childhood and even part of my adult life going to church, Very religious and believing the same as you. I"ve only been atheist for about a year, But I"ve had my doubts for a little longer once I really started thinking critically and realized god is immoral and there"s no evidence supporting his existence, No more than any other religion. You said it was just like parents punishing their kids, I said it was certainly not. You haven"t defended why he allowed the children to drown. I"m sure the children and babies who drowned were innocent. god sure did give us rules regarding non-virgins and women, I find them cruel and distasteful. You asked me what I would do if i were god and i answered your question? I don"t consider brutally murdering his son is all-loving, For christ sake he"s god. Why not just apply the same rules without killing anyone? That"s what any moral deity would do. Me "deciding what god should do" is the same as all the men who wrote the bible. Nonetheless, It"s all up to interpretation anyway. Jews can eat pork as soon as they realize that god doesn"t exist, Again most religions were created to control the masses. Great story, It holds as much weight as the story of the little mermaid. Entertaining, With a lesson behind it. Where"s the news article for this story? How do you know jesus was waiting for him and the conversation that ensued? Did he come back from the dead and show people with evidence, Maybe a photo from the heavens? Were you there? Likewise, I"ve yet to see any evidence supporting mermaids and king triton so I"ll accept it as a fable. Glad god offered the car and boat to that guy tho, Wish he could have done a lil more during the holocaust or sex slavery and childhood cancer but I guess he can"t do everything. Oh wait, He"s god he should be able to. . . But he either can"t or doesn"t want to because "free will". Curse you adam and eve! Look into the religions I named and there are many parallels in quite a few of the stories. If you studied other religions you"d see that they"re all open to interpretation and they have just as much evidence to back up their claims. Some of them have much more moral and peaceful gods or spirits they worship. Either way, Although itd be nice to believe in a kind spirited deity, I still can"t believe in things by solely faith and no evidence. I never said why the christians murdered people and destroyed the property of other religions, I didn"t say it wasn"t political, I even specifically said they had more money and power. My point was that christianity became the dominant religion because of those actions. People who believed otherwise were killed and their sacred texts and places of worship were destroyed, If that hadn"t happened who knows what would be the dominant religion. I do understand what the argument was about, We got off topic as I responded to your statements and again every time I tell you god is immoral you don"t want to have the "moral argument" sooo. . . . Here we are. My pastor used to always argue in a similar matter whenever I had honest questions and was still somewhat of a believer. Fortunately I started looking on the outside and everything made much more sense. Thanks!