(January 14, 2012 at 6:27 am)Welsh cake Wrote:(January 13, 2012 at 7:10 pm)Greatest I am Wrote: Is God’s justice close to an eye for an eye?Its retribution, not correction or rehabilitation for wrong acts committed. God's, or rather man's idea of justice, is just another form of violence. To quote Mahatma Gandhi:
Quote:"An-eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye ... ends in making everybody blind."
(January 13, 2012 at 7:46 pm)Chuck Wrote: If omniscient god's justice was an eye for an eye, one wonders why he wouldn't have stream lined the process and simply created 2 less eyes to start with.Presents an amusing dilemma for theists doomed to ponder indefinitely why a god who would demand us to get on our knees in worship would bother giving us feet.
The problem is resolved when xtians admit God is as immoral as the tribal desert goat herders who created him. After all, a being who infinitely punishes for finite crimes is infinitely unjust.
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Gandhi was indicating that mercy should always temper justice.
He did not elaborate though on how much mercy.
To my mind, the victim who lost the first eye should be consulted as to what he thinks mercy is. Not the judge.
Justice thinks of the closure they need as well.
Regards
DL
