RE: God's Most Appalling Act
April 15, 2012 at 7:25 pm
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2012 at 7:26 pm by Cyberman.)
Ok, let's cut the crap right here. The concept of sacrifice entails wilfully giving up something of personal value; the greater the value, the greater the sacrifice, with the ultimate sacrifice being that of one's own life. All this you have the right to do if that is your wish. You absolutely do not have the right to involve another person in the act. You certainly do not have the right to demand it of others against their will. Any god that is held as the standard of morality, whether such a being exists or not, ought to know this. That anyone could look at this story (and more damning ones such as that of Jephthah in Judges 11:29-39) and not see any problem tells me more about that person than they may have intended; not to say more than I wished to know.
In your trying to defend the actions of these characters by pointing to others who behave the same, I'm mindful of Col Ingersoll's wise counsel: "They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian."
Finally, re: abortion. Let's say for the sake of discussion that abortion equals murder. Have you any idea how many foetuses abort spontaneously without any human or 'state' intervention? That's without even mentioning the many millions of fertilised ova that never implant and get flushed away without the woman ever being aware of it. What's all that about? Embryonic suicide?
In your trying to defend the actions of these characters by pointing to others who behave the same, I'm mindful of Col Ingersoll's wise counsel: "They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian."
Finally, re: abortion. Let's say for the sake of discussion that abortion equals murder. Have you any idea how many foetuses abort spontaneously without any human or 'state' intervention? That's without even mentioning the many millions of fertilised ova that never implant and get flushed away without the woman ever being aware of it. What's all that about? Embryonic suicide?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
