RE: Four questions for Christians
July 3, 2013 at 3:05 am
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2013 at 3:10 am by Consilius.)
(July 3, 2013 at 2:01 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote:Before you look to me to answer my own question, let's go on in this. You are trusting that people would simply "know" or "feel" that this is wrong, no matter their relations to the victims or the immense benefits they receive from just letting a few lives slip.(July 3, 2013 at 1:59 am)Consilius Wrote: What the specific event could possibly be is irrelevant. Let's say that children could be made into the optimal bioweapons for an intergalactic conquest that would supply earth with unheard of bounties of natural resources.
mhm, and what would you do in this situation?
Actually your situation, it wouldn't benefit anyone. Because parents and everyone else who did not die or participate in the killing will feel so much anger and disgust at their fellow human beings that likely chaos would just break out. But anyway, like you said, irrelevant, so what would god want you to do?
You are saying that, no matter how legal the atrocities done to these children are, there is an invisible, immutable, eternal, and universal moral code that overrules them.
What a religion like Christianity would prescribe would be in line with this moral code.
(July 3, 2013 at 3:05 am)Ryantology Wrote:But the Bible says "love your enemies". How then could Christianity be an exclusive, belligerent, supremacist cult?(July 3, 2013 at 2:55 am)Consilius Wrote: Are you saying that Hitler's actions were in line with the Bible?
In that he was a megalomaniac who told his own people they were special and that being special made it okay to massacre everyone who wasn't makes Nazi history sound like biblical fan fiction.
I get the distinct impression that the only detail which makes the Holocaust evil to Christians is the fact that God wasn't explicitly ordering it.