Would you...really?

With all the biblical literalist, or at least those claiming to be so, I have a question for them. If the Bible tells you that you should kill someone, would you...really?

There are many such instance in the Bible, but let's get specific with Deuteronomy 13:6-11, which states...

6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:

9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

...So, if you are a God fearing, Bible believing Christian, would you kill your brother...sister...mother...father...child for believing in some other deity or, none at all?

After all, it spells it out there in black-and-white, "thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death", and failing to do so is to go against the will of God. And this is the conundrum created by the false assumption that reilgion is the source of morality. The realtiy is that it is we who give morality to religion. In judging by today's standards, it would not only be absurd, but criminal to kill someone for believing in a different deity than the one you follow. But that's exactly what the Bible demands.

The apologists will complain bitterly about "moral relativism" in the absence of the moral absolutes of "divine" law. That we choose to NOT murder someone for believing in a different deity...or none at all...as is commanded in the Bible, is an exemplar of moral relativism and our appication of our own morality to religion. An one no better than a member of the priestly class lecturing us on "God's will"...as he interprets it.

So, any time one reads the Bible, and what they are reading commands them to do violence to another because "God commands it!", they need to ask theselves a question. "Would I...really?"

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