Holy Genocide: The Danger of Bible-Based Morality
What God commands is always right
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
“It is wrong to kill people based on the belief that your ethnicity is superior and preferred by God.”
Most of us, I hope, would agree without hesitation. Racism and genocide are frowned upon for good reason.
There’s no such thing as “good genocide”. It’s a flaw in human reasoning to think another group of people deserves to die because of their culture, genetics, nationality, or religious traditions.
The example that typically comes to mind is the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany. Maybe some will think of the Tutsis in Rwanda or the more recent Rohingya genocide in Myanmar.
I don’t know any religious people who think modern genocides are justified.
And yet, the holy books of the Abrahamic religions include many passages describing how the Israelites massacred over a million people because they believed they were God’s chosen people. This destruction of opposing nations is recorded in boastful detail.
According to the scripture, God was pleased with this, and directly killed millions himself. He often…
