This week on the TMS, there was a talk about Achan. How I didnt see how out of wack the JWs moral compass is earlier I do not know. Achan stole some valuables from Jericho and for this him and his whole family was murdered in a brutal fashon and burned up by fire. This is always used as a moral lesson on how much God hates a thief.
What were the circumstances in Jericho? A genocide and massacre had just taken place. The whole city was destroyed. Everyone in it was brutally dispatched with the sword. Imagine with your minds eye, innocent pregnant women were ripped open with their fetuses spilling out. Cute little toddlers were run through, guts spilling out. Elderly men and women, unable to move cowering in their homes were slaughtered like pigs. The streets ran red in rivers of blood. The screams would make any normal humans skin crawl in horror.
After all of this brutal carnage, the moral lesson is dont steal? Is stealing a greater evil than the brutal, bloody murder of an entire city full of innocent men women and children? The bible teaches a twisted morality, and produces people with a twisted, sick moral compass. Just to hear JWs and other religious fundamentalists talk makes me want to throw up. It makes me sick to know I once thought the same way.