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Quick Thought on Canaanite Genocide and the Brutalizing Effects of Violence
You can’t hire a guy to work 9-5 in a slaughterhouse and not expect that to affect how he interacts […]
biblical ethics, biblical violence, canaanite genocide, Canaanites, ethicsShould Christians defend parental honor killing? Many already do.
Christians today react with horror and revulsion when they read of parents who kill their children in the name of […]
biblical ethics, honor killing, stoning, torahIf God commanded you to sacrifice your child, would you? Here’s my response
If God commanded you to sacrifice your child, would you? The answer is simple: God wouldn’t command that. And if […]
biblical ethics, biblical violence, divine command ethics, ethicsDon’t Sacrifice Your Conscience to Defend Your Reading of the Bible
I’ve been talking about biblical violence on Twitter over the last day. So now I’m back to my blog and […]
biblical ethics, biblical violence, ethics, moral intuition, moral perceptionWould Jesus want you to stay married to a psychopath?
This morning, I tweeted the following survey: Clinical psychopaths are manipulative anti-social narcissists who are incapable of experiencing love or […]
biblical ethics, hermeneutics, Jesus, marriage, psychopathy, sexual ethicsReckoning with the Peaceable Kingdom: A Review of Disarming the Church
Eric A. Seibert. Disarming the Church: Why Christians Must Forsake Violence to Follow Jesus and Change the World. (Eugene, OR: Cascade, […]
biblical ethics, Christian ethics, Eric Seibert, just war, pacifism, violenceDoes the Bible condemn same-sex relationships? A Response to Michael Brown (Part 3)
In this article, I continue my response to Michael Brown’s response to my review of his book Can You Be Gay […]
biblical ethics, homosexuality, Michael Brown, sexual ethicsAre same-sex relations and menstrual intercourse moral abominations? A Response to Michael Brown (Part 2)
In this article, I continue my response to Michael Brown’s response to my review of Brown’s book Can You Be Gay […]
biblical ethics, homosexuality, Michael Brown, sexual ethicsThe Bible depicts God commanding moral atrocities. Should we believe it?
The Bible includes some descriptions of divine action which are fundamentally at odds with the moral perceptions of properly functioning […]
biblical ethics, biblical violence, ethics, hermenutics, moral knowledge, moral perception