(May 24, 2013 at 2:13 am)Undeceived Wrote: Which do you respect more:
1. Man who committed murder, yet feels truly sorry.
2. Man who steals small amounts of money from work every day.
Whose heart is in the right place? Which would you rather invite home for dinner?
The world is divided into two groups: criminals who try to turn from their ways, and criminals who see nothing wrong with their deeds. Imagine Jesus is a drug counselor. He accepts only patients who want to be helped. The others, by sheer force of their own will, are beyond aid.
Which would be fine, except you're completely missing the point. The original claim was that god's justice is meted out with the victims in mind, the contention to that being that it's manifestly untrue, because the offender's path into heaven bypasses the victims entirely, in favor of kowtowing to divine mandates. It's not at all required that the offender make restitution to the victims at all, and therefore god's justice, if there is any, is dependent on seeking forgiveness from somebody else.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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