(December 14, 2024 at 3:13 am)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: 2. As mentioned a few posts ago, this is a misunderstanding of Christian doctrine - God is not "damning" us anymore than a judge "damns" a criminal to prison; while it's not an entirely wrong word to use it seems to almost entirely fundamentally miss the mechanic at action and place some blame of the judge and not the criminal.
The analogy is extremely strained when the judge personally set up not only the laws and punishments but the incentives to commit crimes and the weaknesses that make someone susceptible to committing crimes and also knew the crimes were going to be committed at the beginning of time and either failed to prevent the person from becoming a criminal or allowed it.
A mere mortal judge is working within the framework set by lawmakers over their head and has only the duty of determining how to best serve the intent and letter of the law to the best of their ability.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
