The "Cultural Context" Excuse

[Huggy Bear]

(underlining mine -- I think you're arguing from a personal theology here.  It isn't clear to me that the God of Christianity has this right except by interpretation.)

Nowhere in the bible is there a rational defense of God having the right to do what he wants.  The closest you get is Job.  The clay / potter analogy is a lousy analogy.  Clay isn't an autonomous being so the analogy doesn't address relevant moral points.  It would be a closer analogy to say that a parent doesn't have to ask the son or daughter for permission; they can treat them however they like. And this analogy points up the flaw in the argument that God "has the right" to do whatever he wants, because no parent has cart blanche to do what they want to their children regardless of age.   Where did he acquire this right?  How are you defining a 'right'?  These are valid questions which you're just sweeping under the rug with an analogy and some bare assertions.  How do you know God has this right?

*emphasis mine*

And herein lies the hypocrisy. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you are pro choice. In being pro choice you agree with giving women carte blanche to terminate a life simply because "it's her body", yet when someone says that God has supreme authority over his creation, THAT is somehow evil...

So which is it?