(June 4, 2012 at 1:48 pm)Thor Wrote: Good point..... However....
What would happen to a parent who refused to get medical treatment for their sick child and the child died? The parent would be criminally prosecuted. Now, according to the believers, we are all "God's children". In this context, doesn't "God" then have a responsibility to care for his children? By doing nothing and allowing a child to suffer a horrible death, is this deity not negligent in his duties? In fact, I would argue that he is responsible for every death due to starvation. A parent is most certainly required to provide food for their children (at least to the best of their ability). This deity could easily provide food to all the starving children in the world, but he chooses not to do so. This is criminal negligence.
The element of responsibility is missing in your argument here. A parent does not automatically have responsibility for his child, he can choose to forgo it via giving it up for adoption or simply paying child-support for the spouse. I mean, we don't go around prosecuting absentee parents for criminal negligence. It is only when they have assumed the responsibility and failed to meet it that they are considered guilty. God, for all intents and purposes, might as well be a deadbeat dad.
