Why I'm Not A Homicidal Maniac
By - Lee Myers
The Not So Good Book
According to one online survey, over half of all Christians think killing
children is sometimes morally justified. Maybe they were thinking of the Old
Testament. So why is it that we so often hear Christians ask atheists where
we get our morals and why aren’t we all a bunch of raving psychotics?
Some Christians say they get their morals from the Bible and that all others
have to borrow from them. This claim assumes there were no laws or moral
codes before the books of the Bible and that none exist currently in areas
where people have never even heard of the Bible. The Cuneiform Law, the
Code of Urukagina, the Code of Ur-Nammu, the Laws of Eshnunna, the
Codex of Lipit-Ishtar, the Code of Hammurabi and the Code of the Nesilim all
predate the ancient Israeli laws of the Old Testament. There are also other
cultures even today who have moral codes despite never having heard of the
Bible.
Following rules set forth in an ancient anthology denies one’s ability to
reason out their own moral standards. Do Christians actually offer the other
cheek when someone slaps them? Do they stone their children to death for
disobedience? When was the last time a Christian gave everything they
owned to charity?
There are several morals in the Bible almost no Christian would ever
consider following. The books of the Bible merely record the morals and
social customs of the times and places in which they were written, that of
the authors who wrote them and that of the characters contained within
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