Popular Christian apologists have a problem. On the one hand, they are strident defenders of objective moral knowledge, often to the end of defending a moral argument for God’s existence. On the other hand, they defend readings of the violence portrayed in the Bible that appear inconsistent with that aforementioned commitment to objective moral knowledge. […]
Amalekites
John Allister, the Amalekites, and the Principle of Inherited Culpability
In his defense of the Amalekite genocide on “Unbelievable” John Allister appeals to what we can call the “Principle of Inherited Culpability”. While John doesn’t provide a clear definition of this principle, I’ll attempt to do so based on what he says. Principle of Inherited Culpability We will begin with a first attempt to articulate John’s […]
