Friday 24 February 2017

Tony Costa's UN Human Rights Premise Debunked

Tony Costa, a Christian apologist, tries to use secular UN human rights to attack Islam. Muslimbychoice made this video responding to him via clips of Shabir Ally. It highlights the utter inconsistency on the part of Tony Costa. Surely he can see this..

Shabir Ally clips rebuke Tony costa on Human Rights and the Bible
If this video doesn't play please see here

Tony Costa is a Trinitarian Christian. Trinitarian Christians believe Jesus (as the second person of their triune Godhead doctrine) ordered the killing and destruction of whole towns if some people amongst them called to the worship of other gods:

12“When you begin living in the towns the LORD your God is giving you, you may hear 13that scoundrels among you are leading their fellow citizens astray by saying, ‘Let us go worship other gods’—gods you have not known before. 14In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find that the report is true and such a detestable act has been committed among you, 15you must attack that town and completely destroyb all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. 16Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the open square and burn it. Burn the entire town as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. 17Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a large nation, just as he swore to your ancestors. [Deut 13]

Trinitarians also believe Jesus ordered the killing of apostates from one's own family if they began preaching the worship of other gods: 

6 “If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, 7 of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, 8 you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; 9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
[Deut 13]

Sid Cordle of the Christian People's Alliance states the EU Declaration on Human Rights isn't compatible with Christianity. Why is Tony Costa arguing like he doesn't s secularist? Seems like another case of the Bible getting in the way of a Westernised Christian who wants to attack Islam. Interesting.