(October 6, 2013 at 1:16 am)worldslaziestbusker Wrote: The Crocodillemma: a litmus test for determining how important personal revelation is in the faith position of a religious adherent, and how seriously they can expect others to take their purported convictions regarding that faith.
If someone asserts personal revelation is an important part of their faith, the following question can be used to prompt them to think hard about what that actually means: If you received a message, every bit as compelling as that which convinced you of the existence of your deity, in which that deity instructed you to kill me, how would you react?
There you go, LionIRC - a fresh page on which to demonstrate your ability to answer a question without obfuscation. Go.
A deity?
Are you talking about God or a saint or what else?
If we talk about God he will never ask you to kill for no reason and beside he can kill anyone anytime so why would ask anybody to kill for him?
If we talk about anyone else then i think is impossible to interfere with God decision so if you believe that some body else send you a message then i say that this message can only come out from nowhere else but your mind which should not be taken seriously.
Religious people may not agree with me especially those who give their own interpretation to religious books like talibans or the Christians of the past.
