(November 21, 2012 at 2:36 pm)John V Wrote: 3. Christians tend to accept that God is the ultimate judge, and see things like the flood or military conquests as acts of just judgment, not murder.
Just judgement would target only the specific offenders. If you decide to just kill them all (animals included) and sort the bodies out, you are not being just. If you punish the rules of Egypt by targeting, specifically, innocent firstborn children, you are a callous murderer. It says a lot about Christians that they think genocide of innocent children is 'just judgement'.
Quote:4. Christians tend to accept that God has higher standards than we do. God equates the thought with the deed. This is shown in several well-known places: the flood, the ten commandments, and the sermon on the mount. By that standard, most every person is guilty of crimes greatly exceeding those of what we consider to be the worst criminals.
The Ten Commandments prioritizes slavish devotion to God over refraining from theft and murder. Those are not 'higher standards' from a just and righteous God. Those are 'fucked-up priorities' of a selfish and insecure God.
Quote:5. Christians put God’s actions into the perspective of eternity. With an age of accountability doctrine, the young in those judgments went on to eternal happiness.
It also says a lot about Christians that they will always bend over backwards to justify the mass murder of children, all the while ignorant to how shallow it makes their 'pro-life' positions look to everyone else.
Quote:You can disagree all you want. Heck, plenty of prisoners think their treatment was unfair and gripe about it. That generally doesn’t get them out of prison though.
God doesn't run prisons. He runs extermination camps.
