(October 7, 2013 at 6:32 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: It's a very important question with huge ramifications.
I'm entitled to qualify a few points before answering.
If I was a US Navy Seal and God asked me to kill Usama Bin Laden, should I challenge my Commander In Chief or follow orders?
Are you a navy seal alleging to receive divinely mandated orders? If not, the example is not relevant to how you would react. If you want to examine the ethics and mechanisms of state mandated killing, start a thread on exactly that, and we could, in that context, parse out the difference between a divine commandment and an order from a human. Otherwise, quit with the red herrings.
How would you react?
