>>>I agree it seems horrible when the modern mind reads it out of context.
First, I don't see how context mitigates the cruelty inherent in killing even women and children during the course of conquest. Second, insisting that such brutality only seems bothersome to the "modern mind" suggests that morality is not absolute--that it is relative to the times. Yet, theism rests on the argument from absolute morality! Again, I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but do you not see the implications?
First, I don't see how context mitigates the cruelty inherent in killing even women and children during the course of conquest. Second, insisting that such brutality only seems bothersome to the "modern mind" suggests that morality is not absolute--that it is relative to the times. Yet, theism rests on the argument from absolute morality! Again, I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but do you not see the implications?
