Subject: Except it wasn't.....
Response Posted by: Richard Nathan
(Richard-Nathan@worldnet.att.net
)
Institution: I am not institutionalized
Date Posted: Fri Dec 27 19:14:55 1996
Message: If this was supposed to be a lesson that God did not want human sacrifices, it wasn't remembered for long. See the story in the Bible about the General who kills his daughter as a sacrifice to God. If God was supposed to be giving the Jews a lesson that He did not want human sacrifice, he could have just sent down a lighning bolt and burned the letters into a mountain: "DON'T KILL YOUR KIDS." That would have had the added benefit of not traumatizing Abraham and Isaac. I agree with Mark Twain that the God of the Old Testament is one of the worst villains in history.
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