Christian Philosopher Tackles 'Is God a Moral Monster?'
A Christian apologist and philosopher has responded to attacks made by New Atheists like Richard Dawkins who argue that the God of the Old Testament is a "moral monster."
"It seems that there has been a rising tide of criticism launched particularly against the Old Testament conception of God, seeing that as somehow inconsistent with the New Testament conception of God and immoral," said Paul Copan, author of Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God (Baker Jan. 2011), during an interview last week on Credo House Ministries' "Converse with Scholars."
New Atheists, and in some cases Christians, accuse God of ethnic cleansing for commanding to killing of the Canaanites, approving polygamy since many biblical heroes of the Old Testament had more than one wife, and endorsing slavery....