(February 3, 2016 at 11:15 am)robvalue Wrote: Yep, at least that contradiction is somewhat accounted for with liberal theists. For creationists, they have a much harder job explaining it to themselves. But I'm sure they find a way...
Something something God's plan, something something fishers of men. Bonus points if suicide is considered a subset of murder, and that we don't have the moral authority to do so.
The actual reason is both that self preservation I mentioned, combined with the fact that if Christianity were interpreted as a death cult, there would have been no Christians for the last 1,850ish years.
