RE: 10 Questions Biblical Literalists Cannot Honestly Answer
June 19, 2017 at 2:45 pm
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2017 at 2:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 19, 2017 at 2:23 pm)alpha male Wrote: And my answer was probably not. It wasn't an outright no as I don't think anyone can say with certainty how they'd react to the creator of the universe. What part of that is unreasonable?
I think that you misjudge the certainty of others by reference to your own alleged doubts. I can tell you, with certainty, that of all the ways I might react to the creator of the universe....killing my kid.... isn't one of them. Even on the face of this, it's ludicrous. Many contend that they -have- had a divine experience..and yet they managed not to kill their children on account of it.
IMO, this constant pious theater has more to do with your stated opinion of the perception of relative faithlessness involved in simply accepting that you, like every atheist who's ever asked you this question..would not kill your kid. That you, like every atheist who's ever asked you the question, find the divinely issued command horrid even as a hypothetical. You don;t want to have that conversation, and so provide a long wheedling series of non-answers and feigned ignorance as cover. The irony in all of this, from this end, is that you managed to competently answer those questions presented to you by the very virtue of attempting to answer any other question you could come up with.
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