• randomredditor12345
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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