randal says:
Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 4:31am
Steve Hays’ rants read like a Colbert Report send-up.
The only problem is that Hays isn’t trying to be funny apparently.
What a psycho.
This is Rauser’s response to my post, in which I quoted his knee-jerk reaction what the Marines did. The question is whether it’s intrinsically evil to desecrate the dead. I quoted a number of Bible passages which portray ritual desecration of enemy corpses in approving terms.
Of course, that doesn’t ipso facto legitimate what the Marines did. Rather, it makes the point that there is nothing inherently evil about desecrating the dead.
As far as that goes, it wouldn’t be hard to argue that Muslim warriors are analogous to the enemies of the true God in the passages I quoted. But that’s not my immediate point. I’m just comparing the shallow, brainless, politically correct reaction with the attitude of Scripture.
On Rauser’s scale of values, it’s condemnable to urinate on enemy corpses, but commendable to (figuratively) urinate on the Bible. Rauser urinates on the Bible every week by his open contempt for the Bible. Rauser is a closet atheist who shares the same view of Scripture as Richard Dawkins, Thomas Paine, Robert Ingersoll, and Christopher Hitchens. He scorns the Bible of Jesus. He scorns the faith of Jesus.
