This has nothing to do with the price of tea in China.
If you are going to go with the philosophy that your belief validates the existence of God, then all those other "gods' must exist, too.
Speaking of which...
Your summary gives insight into how you think, but has little else to do with the story of Jephthah or the history and culture in which he lived. What I learned about you from your version of the account: Someone who spins his own stories to rationalize his own view of religion and God.
Please point out what I got wrong about Judges Chapter 11 and 12. Jephthah prays to God, promises to sacrifice the first thing he sees when he gets home, and that's his virgin daughter. God loves him some roast virgin, I guess, so he's cool with it. Then he proved his Godliness by murdering 42,000 of his fellow Hebrews.
Tell you what, I told you were to find it, go ahead read it through, let me know what I got wrong.
I am truly sorry your idea of Catholic teaching came in the form of a hateful, ignorant nun. One year, I went through my own version of a hateful nun, so I have some idea of what you went through. But then I moved on and grew up. You battle the cutesy version of Bible Stories with your own hateful version. The second is no more accurate than the first.
Quite the contrary.. I see the Bible for what it is, a book written by religious savages... most of you wouldn't want to live under Bible Law, you'd probably all get stoned to death in a week or so. But you try to pass off this awful book of horrid characters and terrible punishments as a source of moral guidance.
Indeed, you are shadow boxing. No nun ever whacked any of us, and trust me, we were more irreverent in our questions than you. By the way, the histories behind the two genealogies is fascinating.
No, they aren't. HEre's the history. Matthew and Luke ripped off the Gospel of Mark, and just made shit up, to make Jesus fit into the "House of David" narrative to give him Messiah Bona Fides.
Keep in mind, this is supposed to be PROOF that Jesus descended from David (even though they both go through Joseph, who was not the Sperm Donor) but they couldn't even agree on the names of the people in-between or the number of generations. Matthew rips some of it off from the book of Chronicles, but he misses a bunch of people. Luke was just making stuff up.
Indeed, you are shadow boxing. No nun ever whacked any of us, and trust me, we were more irreverent in our questions than you.
Our nuns whacked us all the time. I remember when one of them screamed at this fifth grade girl so much she peed herself in front of the class. These were truly awful people.... with too much religion.