"As if helping a little old lady across the street is not the epitome of good or godly. This need to downplay decent, kind, gracious behavior when it's done by humans is, well, not good."
This need to misrepresent or interpret what I say into something negative or nefarious is honestly kind of the opposite of good.
The simple reality is that the perfection of YHWH is orders of magnitude beyond helping an old woman across the street. This is not to say that helping someone is bad, it's merely to point out the vast difference.
That Dan engages in, and allows others to engage in, this sort of obvious misrepresentation/lire demonstrates his hypocrisy when he bitches about how others do this to him.
FYI, as with pretty much any action motivation matters. If one is helping an old lady across the street to an ATM so they can steal her money, maybe not the epitome of goodness. Likewise, helping an old lady across the street to a a dark alley to kill her, not so nice.
Jesus seemed to think that "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." might be a better epitome of good. But it's not the first time Dan disagrees with Jesus.
" And even if, at the time, this was not considered rape (because these were misogynistic and patriarchal societies where women were more like property/chattel than free humans), doesn't mean it wasn't rape. Perhaps, back then, virgin girls who had their families killed off by invading nations truly DID think, "Well, at least I get a husband out of this" when they were forcibly wed to the invading conquerors who "chose" them... doesn't mean it's moral or rational or just, in the same way that just because enslaving people was considered normative."
Dan seems pretty worked up about this semantic argument about whether Bathsheba was raped or not. He also seems pretty worked up about "forced marriage" thousands of years ago. What he doesn't seem particularly worked up about is the fact that girls as young as 9 are forcibly married to middle aged man in the present day. In 2026 it is legal for a 50 year old man to marry a 9 year old, while Dan bitches about something from thousands of years ago. Families slaughtered and children raped to defile them in the afterlife, or girls raped before being executed for not obeying their parents (again so they won't go to paradise), not something that gets a lot of attention from Dan. But he's all in on lecturing YHWH and ancient Israel about how bad they were.
