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Canaanite

William Lane Craig on genocide as a sign of purity

March 11, 2013 by Randal

This is the tenth installment of my ongoing critique of William Lane Craig’s defense of the Canaanite genocide. For part nine, “The Canaanite genocide as cruel and unusual punishment in extremis,” click here. We rejoin the podcast at (14:16). Just prior to this point Craig had argued that God did not wrong the Canaanite adults […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Bible, Canaanite, ethics, genocide, Old Testament, problem of evil, William Lane Craig

The Canaanite genocide as cruel and unusual punishment in extremis

March 5, 2013 by Randal

We’ve now arrived at the ninth installment of my ongoing critique of William Lane Craig’s podcast “Richard Dawkins and Driving out the Canaanites.” And you’re thinking to yourself: “Geez, isn’t this overkill? Move on Rauser.” And I’m thinking: “That pun was in poor taste. And I’m not moving on, because there is just so much […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Canaanite, ethics, genocide, herem, Old Testament, Rwanda, war, William Lane Craig

William Lane Craig thinks the Canaanites should’ve run! (And too bad if they didn’t.)

March 4, 2013 by Randal

This is the eight installment of my ongoing critique of William Lane Craig’s podcast “Richard Dawkins and Driving out the Canaanites.” In this installment we’re going to return to an excerpt from the podcast which I transcribed originally in part 5. In this section Craig argues that the Canaanites had time to “get out of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Canaanite, ethics, genocide, Old Testament, war, William Lane Craig

On William Lane Craig’s defense of the Canaanite genocide (Part 3)

February 12, 2013 by Randal

In the second installment of this series I argued that we have excellent reasons to believe that genocide is a moral atrocity and that God, being morally perfect, would not command people to commit a moral atrocity. In addition, I developed an analogy between genocide and rape by noting that Christians would widely accept that […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Bible, Canaanite, ethics, genocide, Reasonable Faith, violence, William Lane Craig

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