(March 14, 2016 at 12:17 pm)Kitan Wrote: "God said to sacrifice your son by stabbing and killing him."
See how stupid that sounds?
Yet, theists think that if god gives the command, no matter how stupid it obviously sounds, it exudes love because it is coming from a place of love.
Therefore, "God says that setting a child on fire will make you a loving person."
The thing that gets to me about that is the selfishness of it all. If you cut out the crap, cut out all the poetic and lofty wording... like serving god, god's will, and god's love etc it boils down to a simple statement: "I, your father, am willing to kill you, my son, in order to save me from hell". That's all it comes down to. And then they try to get out of it by saying since the child is innocent they'll go to heaven... so the last thing the son sees in life is his father bearing down on him with a sword... that would be one interesting reunion in heaven forty years later 'oh hi dad, thanks for brutally murdering me when I was young just so I could get here quicker, and then leaving me all alone, whilst you carried on living out your life and doing god's will', 'that's alright son', pat on the back, 'glad I could help. fancy a beer?'
