RE: "I disagree with you, but i don't think you're Hitler"
February 25, 2011 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2011 at 3:36 pm by Rwandrall.)
(February 25, 2011 at 2:29 pm)everythingafter Wrote: Well, that argument can be made as well: God makes man. God knows man will sin in the garden before making him. God knows that he himself will cast a curse on his entire creation for sinning in the garden. God knows that Israel will be disobedient, obedient and then back again dozens of times and for many generations. God, for some reason, reconfigures his own plan for salvation of mankind, that of animal sacrifice to now include his own son as the sacrifice (or himself, or whatever ...). He knows that he will now require man, following Christ's death, to believe in his son and receive eternal life or refuse to believe and spend eternity in hell. He knew all of this before speaking anything into existence, yet, still threw us into a spiritual mouse trap by sheer force (kind of like Job) and without thinking that just maybe some of us would cringe at the thought of one man being tortured, executed and paying for the debts of an entire race. Jesus said some good things about helping the poor and weak among us, but we all know those things do not build the basic foundation of Christianity.
I disagree. It's not the basic foundation of Christianity, but to help the poor and the helpless it definitely is a very central principle to Christianity. All men being sinners and all not believing in Jesus going to Hell forever are also central principles of Christianity. But still, some of their teachings are fundamentally good. Many are not. And since cherry-picking is what the greater part of theists do, a lot of theists keep the "help the helpless" part and ignore the "non-believers go to Hell part".
