(October 7, 2013 at 8:49 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: It's kind of surprising to see an atheist advocating that one ought not question the orders being given. All you seem to want is a simple unthinking response to the Crocodilemma.
Isn't that a bit disingenuous of you?
What are you talking about? If you advocate a divine, perfect, righteous entity of whom you trust to always make moral actions, who essentially owns you and controls your eternal fate, and then you trust that this god contacts you through "personal experience," then I don't see how you can get around unthinking responses.
You christians are always so quick to drape superlatives over your god, talking about his all good nature, how he's your lord, everything he does is good, etc etc. If you get your morality from him, why would you need to think through what you perceive to be his orders and check them against your own moral compass before you execute on them or not? It's his morality, isn't it?
This isn't about us, it's about you guys, who've built this god up as perfect and to be experienced- sufficient enough to believe in him- in a personal, unverifiable way; you're being asked whether you'd put your god's will, in your mind, over your own current physical well being.
"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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