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Says the Madman: “Humanity Is Dead, and We Are Its Murderers”

“Whither is humanity? cried the Madman. I will tell you. We have killed it. We are its murderers! But how could we do this? Are we not plunging continually? How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?” When Friedrich Nietzsche’s Madman told the world, ”God is dead, and we are his murderers,” it was as if …

January 24, 2012 – 5:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Worldviews | Tagged Core, Genocide, Humanity, Humanness, Madman, Naturalism, New Atheism, Nietzsche | Comments (67)

Dawkins’ Principled Stand Against Most Forms of Genocide

Two Recent Headlines: Source 1 Source 2 Maybe Richard Dawkins would say that destroying Christianity is not like killing off a nation, morally speaking. If so, then he is blind to historical and geopolitical realities. Here’s what the Rev. George Pitcher said about it. You’ll find it in the second source article: But one of these …

December 20, 2011 – 10:02 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged Genocide, New Atheism, Richard Dawkins | Comments (34)

God and the Genocide Question

This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series God and Genocide

To finish my series on God and his alleged acts of genocide in the Old Testament (OT) will take a longer post than usual. I’ve divided this series into four entries, but there’s no good way to split this last one. First I want to remind you of something I mentioned very briefly last time, …

June 27, 2009 – 10:50 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Intellectual Engagement | Tagged Genocide | Comments (127)

Resources on the Question of God and Genocide

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series God and Genocide

Matthew Anderson signaled this to us, and I want to be sure we all have opportunity to look at it: a continuing discussion on the question of God and his alleged acts of genocide in Philosophia Christi. Two of the papers are available online, both by Paul Copan: Is Yahweh a Moral Monster? The New …

June 15, 2009 – 4:21 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Intellectual Engagement, Knowing God | Tagged Genocide | Comments (45)

God and Genocide: Clarifying the Question

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series God and Genocide

Early this week we started to take a look at whether God is guilty of genocide, in various places in the Old Testament where he commanded Israel to destroy certain nations. The question was whether these acts of God were evil, as genocide certainly is in any normal human instance. In that first post I …

June 13, 2009 – 7:31 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Intellectual Engagement, Knowing God | Tagged Genocide | Comments (44)

Did God Commit Genocide In the Bible?

This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series God and Genocide

The God of the Bible is often charged with gross immorality, especially for ordering entire nations to be destroyed in the Old Testament. He commanded Israel to cleanse Canaan of its immoral, idol-worshiping nations after the Exodus, and in 1 Samuel 15 he instructed them to destroy Amalek completely, “man and women, child and infant, …

June 7, 2009 – 2:40 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Intellectual Engagement, Knowing God | Tagged Bible, Core, Genocide, Old Testament | Comments (104)

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Tag Archives: Genocide

Says the Madman: “Humanity Is Dead, and We Are Its Murderers”

Dawkins’ Principled Stand Against Most Forms of Genocide

God and the Genocide Question

Resources on the Question of God and Genocide

God and Genocide: Clarifying the Question

Did God Commit Genocide In the Bible?

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