Sunday Sermonette: More biblical morality

This is the last chapter of Ezra. Obviously, the story is implausible, but just consider the moral principle here.  Speaking on behalf of Yahweh, Ezra commands an untold number of men -- evidently a substantial proportion of the population -- to abandon their wives and children and, presumably, expel them from Judah. I can assure you that the neighboring states didn ' t have refugee resettlement agencies or Aid to Families with Dependent Children, meaning that the like fate of these people was starvation. That ' s the moral thing to do, according to Ezra and his psychopathic deity. I don ' t have more to say about this, just think about what really happens here. As I have said many times, people who claim that the Bible is the guide to a moral life, and that they live according to the Bible, obviously haven ' t read it.10 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites —men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.2 Then Shekaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples around us. But in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel.3 Now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all these women and their children, in accordance with the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Law....
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