and it is only done if the majority of the town has two eyewitnesses testifying that over 50% of the individuals of the town worshipped idols after being warned that doing so carries the death penalty
You realize that’s not better right? It’s literally religious persecution as a law.
1- it’s definitely better to kill a town where the majority have been convicted of idol worship as opposed to a case where there is a single idol worshipper
2- all other factors being equal, any legal system that requires jurisprudence is better than a like alternative that calls for vigilantism
More absurdly, this would even apply to worship of gods that by all available evidence are in fact older than Yahweh
I disagree that such beings actually exist within reality given that I believe that he is the author of reality itself.
By “older than” I don’t mean those gods are actually real I mean that archeological evidence indicates that humanity believed in them long before anyone ever heard of Yahweh.
You made that clear when you said “by all available evidence”. I was pointing out that in my interpretation of the evidence no god predates mine as I don’t ascribe nearly as much weight to archaeological evidence and it’s interpretations as I do with better established sciences
1- it’s definitely better to kill a town where the majority have been convicted of idol worship as opposed to a case where there is a single idol worshipper
2- all other factors being equal, any legal system that requires jurisprudence is better than a like alternative that calls for vigilantism
I disagree that such beings actually exist within reality given that I believe that he is the author of reality itself.
By “older than” I don’t mean those gods are actually real I mean that archeological evidence indicates that humanity believed in them long before anyone ever heard of Yahweh.
You made that clear when you said “by all available evidence”. I was pointing out that in my interpretation of the evidence no god predates mine as I don’t ascribe nearly as much weight to archaeological evidence and it’s interpretations as I do with better established sciences