The question is interesting, but I think that comes eventually to a single fork in the road.
A great many followers of the abrahamic faiths have this notion that god is loving and merciful, yet also just and vengeful. Mercy directly conflicts with justice, for if god is to be merciful to someone who has committed a crime, then he must forfeit justice to accommodate that sense of mercy.
If he is to be just, he must set aside his mercy, and condemn the guilty for their crimes.
After this, we get into the, and I hope theists will forgive my bluntness here, the absolute bullshit standards and laws this god has set in place. Being born, for instance, since our ancestors did something bad. Not loving him, being another. I mean what truly caring individual, or what rational, good individual, tortures someone for eternity because they didn't love them?
That's pretty damn sick. I'm not worshiping that deity.
A great many followers of the abrahamic faiths have this notion that god is loving and merciful, yet also just and vengeful. Mercy directly conflicts with justice, for if god is to be merciful to someone who has committed a crime, then he must forfeit justice to accommodate that sense of mercy.
If he is to be just, he must set aside his mercy, and condemn the guilty for their crimes.
After this, we get into the, and I hope theists will forgive my bluntness here, the absolute bullshit standards and laws this god has set in place. Being born, for instance, since our ancestors did something bad. Not loving him, being another. I mean what truly caring individual, or what rational, good individual, tortures someone for eternity because they didn't love them?
That's pretty damn sick. I'm not worshiping that deity.
If you believe it, question it. If you question it, get an answer. If you have an answer, does that answer satisfy reality? Does it satisfy you? Probably not. For no one else will agree with you, not really.
