God is Dead

Much thanks to my opponent for his wit and candor. He is welcome to challenge me to a debate at any time. Ladies and gentlemen who will be voting on this debate, I ask you to only consider the evidences on both sides. Throughout the discussion, we have heard the proponent of theism ignore scientific consensus, historical consensus, and Christian consensus on the nature of the Bible and Christianity - all of which claim that it can not be taken literally. We have heard him try to justify the atrocities of Yahweh, from the immolation of priests' daughters commanded in Leviticus 21 and murder of all nonbelievers in Deuteronomy 13 and Leviticus 24 to the sanctioning of the mass murder and rape of children in Numbers 31 and Exodus 12. From the genocide of whole cities in Joshua 10 to the notion that those without faith will be forced to eat their own children found in Deuteronomy 28, my opponent has so far failed to offer a convincing argument as to why an all-good being of love and righteousness would think these acts were justified. What crimes were the children guilty of? What crimes were the innocent Amalekites whom Joshua had murdered guilty of? Are we to believe that the Christian claim that "God is Love" is compatible with the god who chose to drown a planet because it angered him? God rained fire on Gomorrah because it was filled with homosexuals, but did nothing about the Nazis, who threw six million of his 'chosen people' into furnaces? Why the sudden change of character? Or is it maybe possible that this god doesn't exist in the first place? My opponent has failed to refute my assertion that no serious, non-creationist scholar (whether Christian or not) actually believes the Gospels were written as first person accounts. He has failed to refute the fact that we know the ancient Israelites as a whole (not a few isolated individuals) worshipped Yahweh as one of many gods of equal power. He has offered nothing to refute my claim that Christianity has taken it's creation story, many of it's narratives, and even it's God from it's pagan neighbors. He has offered nothing to justify the reliability of the Bible save obviously biased sources and the claim that it is non-falsifiable (which, aside from being blatantly incorrect, is the sign of a weak argument). By denying evolution, cosmology, and common sense, he has shown that he has more faith in fairy-tales written by desert scribes three thousand years ago than the cutting edge sciences of today. I have shown that the Bible is unreliable, filled with myths and war crimes, and is against all of modern science. I have shown God to be a jealous, hateful character created by ignorant, sexist, pagan peasants thousands of years ago. Therefore, God is Dead, and the resolution is affirmed. Thank you for your attention. http://bibviz.com... - A massive project that examines many places the Bible contradicts itself or preaches hate/violence. https://infidels.org... - A handy list of Bible contradictions. www.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/timeline_04.html - National Geographic Article. www.bc.edu/schools/stm/crossroads/resources/.../intro/the_dating_of_thegospels.html - Boston College Link. http://www.npr.org... - Interview with Bart Ehrman. - A video on how I feel talking to Christians about the Bible. "Wild Justice" by Marc Bekoff, an ecologist and professor. "The Unseen Realm" by Michael Heiser, a Christian scholar of Israelite polytheism. "The Greatest Show on Earth" by Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and professor. "Misquoting Jesus" and "How Jesus Became God" by Bart Ehrman, a Bible scholar and professor. "How God Became God" by Richard Smoley, a religious scholar and graduate of both Oxford and Harvard Universities. All Bible quotations taken from the New International Version; a very commonly used translation.