(March 12, 2016 at 6:49 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 12, 2016 at 6:01 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: If I knew my toddler son will choose to wander out onto a freeway, and I did nothing, would i not be complicit in his death?
Are we not toddlers compared to your god and your devil?
I don't know what we are compared to God.
The difference between a human parent running out to grab their toddler son off the street, and God changing things that would naturally happen, is that for God to do it would require divine intervention. And like Tibs said, you start getting into a slippery slope. Why didn't God stop the toddler from getting hit by a car? Why didn't God stop my brother from getting severe food poisoning last week? Why didn't God prevent me from stubbing my toe? If God were to prevent every negative thing that were about to happen, we wouldn't have free will anymore.
Nonsense. Preventing someone from stubbing their toe inhabits a different moral dimension than allowing them to die by your own inaction.
If you think otherwise, your moral values are not my cup of tea anyways.
Furthermore, what is the point of praying if divine intervention is off-limits? (I'm assuming you pray).
Sorry, by allowing your god a heartlessness and deadly disinterest that you'd castigate if you saw it in a human, you're demonstrating that your morality is subjective -- it changes according the the point-of-view of the moral actor.
