RE: Judge Upholds Firing of Fundie Fuckhead
November 5, 2012 at 3:58 pm
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2012 at 3:59 pm by Cyberman.)
(November 5, 2012 at 3:37 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote:(November 4, 2012 at 10:12 am)Stimbo Wrote: What if what is commanded in your holy book is in direct conflict with societal considerations? Specifically with regard to the original question, suppose your god via your book commanded you to kill for whatever reason, say stoning adulteres to death, yet society didn't let you (which it doesn't). To whom do you pledge your allegiance?
I was attempting to answer you question Stimbo. I apologize if I seemed to be trying to raise a red herring (I don't know the proper way to phrase that).
My answer was simply, God wouldn't do that.
I will never have to make that decision.
How do you know? The god character is known for ordering such things in those holy books, there have been individuals who have tried to defend crimes of this nature by claiming that their god commanded it. How can you say for certain that your god wouldn't command you to act in that way? Or are you placing constraints on what it can and can't do? So I repeat: to whom would you place your allegiance - to your fellow man or to a god who some have used as justification for antisocial and murderous behaviour?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
