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canaanite genocide

The Most Reprehensible Genocide Apologetics Talking Point Of All

August 7, 2021 by Randal

Genocide apologetics is the enterprise of attempting to defend the ethics of a historical reading of the conquest of Canaan, one which meets the legal definition of genocide. In other words, it aims to argue that genocide is really not intrinsically evil and in some cases, it may even be morally praiseworthy. In Jesus Loves Canaanites […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, canaanite genocide, Frank Turek, genocide apologetics

William Lane Craig’s Failed Defense of the Canaanite Conquest

August 3, 2021 by Randal

In this video, I offer a critique of William Lane Craig’s recent defense of the Canaanite conquest which amounts to a failed attempt to defend ethnic cleansing and genocide. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, canaanite genocide, William Lane Craig

Quick Thought on Canaanite Genocide and the Brutalizing Effects of Violence

May 14, 2020 by Randal

You can’t hire a guy to work 9-5 in a slaughterhouse and not expect that to affect how he interacts with animals outside the workplace. The same principle applies in war. People can only sustain the cognitive dissonance introduced by combat situations for so long before it affects their character generally. The history of war […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical ethics, biblical violence, canaanite genocide, Canaanites, ethics

The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: A Review

June 11, 2018 by Randal

John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton. The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest. InterVarsity Press, 2017. Some folks will likely be drawn to The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest (henceforth LWIC) because of name-brand recognition: this is the fourth installment in John Walton’s popular Lost World series. (However, in this case, the book is largely written […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical studies, biblical violence, biblical warfare, canaanite genocide

Apologetics and the cult of concision or, not every conversation can be had in under four minutes

March 23, 2015 by Randal

The other day I was at the Wintery Knight blog when the following article title caught my eye: “What if you only had four minutes to defend Israel’s attack on the Canaanites?” The article provided a brief synopsis of Jonathan Morrow’s book Questioning the Bible: 11 Major Challenges to the Bible’s Authority by focusing on one […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, biblical violence, canaanite genocide, indoctrination, Noam Chomsky

Could God again command the killing of infants and children for a greater good? A critique of William Lane Craig

March 11, 2013 by Randal

This is my eleventh installment of my ongoing critique of William Lane Craig’s podcast “Richard Dawkins and Driving Out the Canaanites.” (Yes, there is an end in sight. One final installment and I’m done.) For the tenth installment click here. This time around we join the podcast at 16:56 as Craig explains the unique nature […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: canaanite genocide, ethics, natural law, Old Testament, William Lane Craig

The God I really don’t understand

August 31, 2011 by Randal

I am almost at an end (for the time being) of recycling my old classic posts from my Christian Post blogging days. Hopefully by the end of this week I’ll be reviewing Loftus The End of Christianity again. In the interim, here is a 2009 article I wrote on a new book (at the time) […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: accommodation, canaanite genocide, Christopher Wright, herem

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