Christian faith disables moral judgments
Premise: Christianity discourages critical moral reasoning by requiring believers to begin with the non-negotiable conclusion that their god is perfectly good.
P1: Critical thinking requires allowing evidence to challenge your conclusions.
P2: Christians are taught that their god is necessarily good and cannot act immorally.
P3: Therefore, when the Bible attributes apparently immoral conduct to their god (slavery, genocide, collective punishment, killing children, eternal punishment, or denying people meaningful consent) most Christians don’t seriously consider the possibility that the conduct was immoral.
Instead, they work backwards from the required conclusion (taken from debates I've had here recently):
If their god claims ownership over humans because he created them, that ownership must be legitimate.
If humans never consented to his authority or judgment, then their consent must not matter.
If refusing him carries severe consequences, then those consequences must not be coercive.
If the same claims of ownership, compulsory authority, and punishment for refusal would be condemned in any other relationship, different rules must apply to their god.
This produces a disturbing result.
Christians who would ordinarily condemn slavery, genocide, collective punishment, coercion, or killing children find themselves defending those things when their god is alleged to have authorised them.
The problem isn’t that Christians are incapable of thinking critically.
It’s that their faith establishes one subject about which genuinely critical thought is forbidden.
They may question their interpretation, context, translation, or personal understanding... but they cannot follow the evidence to the conclusion that their god behaved immorally, because Christianity rules that conclusion out in advance.
Conclusion: When a belief requires you to defend conduct you would condemn in anyone else, it hasn’t improved your morality. It has disabled your willingness to apply morality consistently.
The debate question to Christians is:
What act(s) attributed to your god would you be willing to condemn as immoral?
If the answer is “none,” then you aren’t morally evaluating your god. You’re merely rationalising whatever your religion says he did.