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Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
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RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 1, 2014 at 11:02 pm
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2014 at 11:03 pm by Mudhammam.)
(March 1, 2014 at 10:56 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(March 1, 2014 at 10:52 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I'm guessing they've read that so-called Perfect Book most Christians throw themselves down to. Well, the self-proclaimed chief of sinners himself, St. Paul, is apparently in heaven but those who have committed the thought-crime of atheism are apparently denied entry. You disagree? And you call this perfect justice? According to your logic, terrorism in the name of Allah is perfectly justifiable because they've been instructed to wage jihad and die as martyrs by a perfect judge. Your argument for killing children in the name of Yahweh is exactly the same. And it's just as illogical/unfounded/dangerous.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
(March 1, 2014 at 11:04 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(March 1, 2014 at 10:45 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Dogma: receive Jesus and repent your sins You asked a question. Was it rhetorical or did you sincerely want to know?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
The question was... How do you know that the mass murdering rapist isn't dealt justice and is sent to heaven? You don't know. Your questions repeated Luckies and Rahuls's.
RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 1, 2014 at 11:58 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2014 at 12:07 am by Mudhammam.)
(March 1, 2014 at 11:19 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The question was... How do you know that the mass murdering rapist isn't dealt justice and is sent to heaven? You don't know. Your questions repeated Luckies and Rahuls's. Well, if I was a Christian, I'd have to go with what the Bible says, and it speaks of no place like purgatory. Even if it did, you're talking about a relatively insignificant period of judgement when eternal bliss directly follows. So the reformed mass murderer is still given a much better fate than the (say, humanitarian) atheist, and I still don't see how that equates to justice in any sense of the word familiar to my mind. Does that seem like justice to you? Or do you in the back of your mind say, "No, that doesn't seem fair to me..but I just have to trust God because he knows"? I'm honestly asking.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 2, 2014 at 12:00 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2014 at 12:02 am by Rahul.)
(March 1, 2014 at 11:19 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The question was... How do you know that the mass murdering rapist isn't dealt justice and is sent to heaven? You don't know. Your questions repeated Luckies and Rahuls's. John 3:16 Accept Jesus as your personal savior and all your sins are washed away as white as snow. If you don't accept, well you were born in sin, and there's only one other place you can go. What denomination congregation do you attend?
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
On a more fundamental level, justice is about taking appropriate action in the face of inappropriate actions. God's justice is about taking appropriate action in the presence of inappropriate thought. Any system of justice whose main crime is a thought crime cannot be perfectly just in my view. Thoughts aren't deserving of punishment; acts are.
![]() (March 2, 2014 at 12:27 am)rasetsu Wrote: On a more fundamental level, justice is about taking appropriate action in the face of inappropriate actions. God's justice is about taking appropriate action in the presence of inappropriate thought. Any system of justice whose main crime is a thought crime cannot be perfectly just in my view. Thoughts aren't deserving of punishment; acts are. The American criminal code is full of thought crimes known as conspiracies. |
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