(June 13, 2013 at 3:09 am)max-greece Wrote:(June 13, 2013 at 2:56 am)FallentoReason Wrote: So far so good. Now we can get into the actual argument:
God will judge only those individuals whose "container" is big enough such that the individual is "self-aware". These individuals happen to be the ones born into the human species. Judgement awaits us and not those individuals that were born as e.g. ants. It's an extremely unfair treatment of immaterial minds that seem a priori equal when not incarnated into a physical body.
Just to be clear I wasn't setting off on a justification of the lunacy of religion and the idea of judgement. I was actually just trying to understand the premise and then playing with it.
Maybe ants are judged - but none can ever fail - they do what they are supposed to do. You have to get to a certain level before you can fail.
Therefore - those masturbating dolphins are all in hell along with the vast majority of us and a few chimps.
Animals don't seem to have the notion of religion. How they would come to know the commandments seems like a bit of a mystery to me.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
