I wrote an earlier post on the morality of the biblical deity; over the weeks I've done a bit more thinking on the subject and found even more reasons why the Biblical deity is not up to my moral standards:
Here we have a deity who punishes billions of women with painful labor because of one gullible woman. Is that just? Is that fair?
He condones human sacrifice as in the case of Jepthah, a judge, who promises to sacrifice the first thing he sees upon returning home if he has victory over the Ammonites. He is victorious and upon his return his daughter rushes out to greet him and so he sacrifices (murders) her and, unlike Isaac, god does not spare her.
He encourages mass rape as seen in Numbers when he tells the Israelites: "Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves." Can you imagine the terror of those girls as they are raped by men who killed their mothers and their fathers and their baby brothers? It's sadism on a massive scale. (Plus Deuteronomy 22:23 says that you have to execute rape victims so were they later killed anyway?)
This deity does not meet my standards for a just and moral being so for me the question is not how can you be moral without the Bible, the question is how does one manage to be moral with it?
