Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
~ Exodus 22:22-24, NIV
Proving, of course, that God is a Stalinist. Or a Maoist.
ReplyDeleteOr one of a dozen murderous popes, hundreds of despotic bishops, or the occassional Christian mob destroying a pagan temple...
ReplyDeleteAlso, atheists "condemn" those people (which is pointless and of no use to the victims anyway). We didn't write their actions into a book we all hold close to our hearts as the eternal word of truth.