(June 6, 2012 at 2:47 am)genkaus Wrote: How is god abandoning humanity any different from a parent leaving a baby at an orphanage? I haven't heard of anyone being prosecuted for that.
Well under that analogy, God would have no legal rights to contact us, or see us, and most importantly any authority whatsoever. Most theists believe that God has some authority over us, and with authority comes responsibility. So hypothetically speaking, if God had any authority over us, he would also have responsibility as well, and therefore be responsible for everything that happened to us.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
