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begin well that was all very interesting
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ask yourselves what is wrong with
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spending eternity in hell well I'm told
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it's rather hot there for one dr. Craig
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is not offering an alternative view of
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morality okay the whole point of
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Christianity or so it is imagined is to
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safeguard the eternal well-being of
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human souls now happily there's
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absolutely no evidence that the
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Christian hell exists and I think we
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should look at the consequences of
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believing in this framework this
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theistic framework in this world and
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what these moral underpinnings actually
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would be all right nine million children
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die every year before they reach the age
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of five a picture picture a Asian
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tsunami of the sort we saw in 2004 that
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killed a quarter of a million people one
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of those every 10 days killing children
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only under five okay it's 2024 thousand
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children a day a thousand an hour 17 or
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so a minute that means before I can get
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to the end of this sentence some few
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children very likely will have died in
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terror and agony think I think of the
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parents of these children think of the
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fact that that most of these men and
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women believe in God and are praying at
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this moment for their children to be
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spared and their prayers will not be
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answered okay but according to dr. Craig
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this is all part of God's plan any God
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who would allow children by the millions
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to suffer and die in this way and their
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parents to grieve in this way either can
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do nothing to help them or doesn't care
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to he is therefore either impotent or
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evil
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and worse than that on dr. Craig's view
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most of these people many of these
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people certainly will be going to hell
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because they're praying to the wrong God
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just think about that okay through no
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fault of their own they were born into
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the wrong culture where they got the
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wrong theology and they missed the
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revelation okay they're 1.2 billion
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people in India at this moment most of
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them are Hindus most of them therefore
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polytheists in dr. Craig's universe no
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matter how good these people are they
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are doomed if you are if you are praying
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to the monkey god Hanuman you are doomed
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okay you will be tortured in hell for
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eternity now is there the slightest
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evidence for this no it just says so in
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mark 9 and Matthew 13 and revelation 14
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perhaps you'll remember from the Lord of
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the Rings it says when the Elves die
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they go to Valinor but they can be
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reborn in middle-earth I say that just
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as a point of comparison okay so God
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created the cultural isolation of the
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Hindus okay he engineered the
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circumstance of their deaths in
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ignorance of Revelation and then he
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created the penalty for this ignorance
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which is an eternity of conscious
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torment in fire okay on the other hand
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on dr. Craig's account your
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run-of-the-mill serial killer in America
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okay who spent his life raping and
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torturing children need only come to God
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come to Jesus on death row and after a
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final meal of fried chicken he's going
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to spend an eternity in heaven after
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death okay one thing should be crystal
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clear to you this vision of life has
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absolutely nothing to do with moral
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accountability can please notice the
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double standard that people like dr.
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Craig used to to exonerate God from all
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this evil okay we're told that God is
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loving and
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and just and intrinsically good but when
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someone like myself points out the
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obvious and compelling evidence that God
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is cruel and unjust because he visits
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suffering on innocent people of a scope
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and scale that would would embarrass the
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most ambitious psychopath
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okay we're told that God is mysterious
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okay who can understand God's will okay
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and yet this is precisely the this
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merely human understanding of God's will
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is precisely what believers use to
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establish his goodness in the first
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place if something good happens to a
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Christian some he feels some bliss while
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praying say where he sees some positive
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change in his life and we're told that
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God is good okay but when children by
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the tens of thousands are torn from
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their parents arms and drowned
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we're told that God is mysterious this
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is how you play tennis without the net
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okay and I want to suggest to you that
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it is not only tiresome when otherwise
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intelligent people speak this way it is
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morally reprehensible okay this kind of
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faith is it really is the perfection of
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narcissism God loves me don't you know
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he cured me of my eczema he makes me
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feel so good while singing in church and
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just when we had given up hope he found
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a banker who was willing to reduce my
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mother's mortgage okay given all the all
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that this god of yours does not
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accomplish in the lives of others given
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given the the misery that's being
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imposed on some helpless child at this
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instant this kind of faith is obscene
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okay this to think in this way is to
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fail to reason honestly or to care
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sufficiently about the suffering of
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other human beings and if God is good
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and loving and just and kind and he
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wanted to guide us morally with a book
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why give us a book that supports slavery
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why give us a book that it monitors us
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to kill people for imaginary crimes like
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witchcraft
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now of course there's a way of not
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taking these questions to heart
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according to dr. Craig's divine command
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theory God is not bound by moral duties
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God doesn't have to be good whatever he
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commands is good so when he commands
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that the Israelites to slaughter the
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Amalekites that behavior becomes
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intrinsically good because he commanded
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it okay well here we're being offered
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I'm glad he raised the issue of
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psychopathy we're being offered a
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psychopathic and psychotic moral
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attitude it's psychotic because this is
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completely delusional there's no reason
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to believe that we live in a universe
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ruled by an invisible monster Yahweh but
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it is it is psychopathic because this is
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a total detachment from from the
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well-being of human beings it this so
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easily rationalizes the slaughter of
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children okay just that just think about
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the Muslims at this moment who are
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blowing themselves up convinced that
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they are agents of God's will there is
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absolutely nothing that dr. Craig can
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say against their behavior in moral
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terms apart from his own faith-based
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claim that they're praying to the wrong
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God if they had the right God what they
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were doing would be good on divine
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command theory now I'm obviously not
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saying that all the dr. Craig or all
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religious people are psychopaths and
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psychotics but this to me is that is the
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true horror of religion it allows
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perfectly decent and sane people to
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believe by the billions what only
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lunatics could believe on their own if
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you wake up tomorrow morning thinking
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that's saying a few Latin words over
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your pancakes is going to turn them into
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the body of Elvis Presley okay you have
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lost your mind okay but if you think
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more or less the same thing about a
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cracker and the body of Jesus you're
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just a Catholic
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and I'm not the first person to notice
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that it's a it's a very strange sort of
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loving God who would make salvation
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depend on believing in him on bad
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evidence okay it's it's I mean if you
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live 2,000 years ago there was evidence
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galore and he was just performing
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miracles but apparently he got tired of
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being so helpful and so now we all
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inherit this very heavy burden of the
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doctrines implausibility and and and and
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the effort to square it with what we now
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know about the cosmos and we and what we
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know about the all-too-human origins of
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scripture becomes more and more
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difficult and it's not just the generic
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God that dr. Craig is recommending it is
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God the Father and Jesus the son
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okay Christianity on dr. Craig's account
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is the true moral wealth of the world
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well I hate to break it to you here at
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Notre Dame but Christianity is a cult of
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human sacrifice Christianity is not a
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religion that sell that repute er
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repudiates human sacrifice it is a
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religion that celebrates a single human
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sacrifice as though it were effective
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God so loved the world that He gave His
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only Son John 3:16
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the idea is that Jesus suffered the
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crucifixion so that none needs suffer
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hell except those those billions in
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India and billions like them throughout
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history okay this is this is this is
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astride this doctrine is astride a
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contemptible history of scientific
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ignorance and religious barbarism we
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come from people who used to bury
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children in under the foundations of new
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buildings as offerings to their
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imaginary gods if we just think about
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that they're in vast numbers of
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societies people would bury children in
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postholes people like ourselves thinking
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that this would prevent an invisible
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being from knocking down their buildings
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these are the sorts of people who wrote
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the Bible if there is a a less moral
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moral framework than the one dr. Craig
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is proposing I haven't heard of it
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