RE: Four questions for Christians
July 1, 2013 at 4:49 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2013 at 4:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 29, 2013 at 1:08 am)Consilius Wrote: "They did it first" is the much of way the legal system works today and exactly the way it did in 2000 B.C.No one cares, I certainly don't. Whether or not something works a given way doesn't have anything to say with regards to whether or not it;s right. Here again you attempt to paint the character in the narrative as "no worse than".
Quote:Attacking soldiers are killed in battle because "they attacked first".Not always, but who cares?
Quote:Murderers are killed because "they murdered first".Not always, but who cares?
Quote:The "tu quoque" defense would only apply to this case if the Israelites had killed the Egyptian children themselves. The judgement was carried out by a judge.TQ is not a defense...it's the name of a logical fallacy. If you form an argument around it, your'e communicating and arguing incoherently. End of. It doesn't matter whether or not the judgement was carried out "by a judge". Being a judge does not make you right, it simply makes you a judge. If simply being a judge excused any given judge for some decision then police officers would be incapable of breaking the law - along the same lines, because, you know..they're cops..and judges would be incapable of making bad decisions..because..you know, they're judges.....
Death is only a punishment on anyone if they are attached to the world around them. This being a biblical event, death for the innocent is the passing on into a better life. It is only a punishment to the people who have to live with the fact that they are dead.
It doesn't matter what sort of life people "pass into" or how many lollipops are handed out, the event and responsibility for that event is not changed. "I killed a bunch of kids but I made them totally happy in the hereafter"- that doesn't matter. That you even have to imagine it to reconcile the narrative tells me that you understand perfectly well why the narrative is soup sandwich to begin with. Why is the "god" character handing out lollipops again? What is it he's making up for?
Uh-huh.
@Frodo. My bastardization? I'm the one telling people that they might want to discard the narrative as obvious fiction. I'm criticizing your fellow christians demands of the narrative...so, as usual, bullshit.
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