(January 20, 2014 at 6:28 pm)Boris Karloff Wrote: I believe in 1 Chronicles God killed around 70,000 people because David ordered that a census be taken.
Can someone rationally and logically explain why this is...well...ok, and righteous? Especially when it came from a God who issued the commandment "thou shall not kill?"
I mean, fuck, I thought that the worst thing that happened regarding a census involved fava beans and a nice chianti.
Thou shalt not kill is not the command. The command is you shall not murder. The difference? The death of a human being has no intrinsic 'moral' value before God. (Nor does the act in of itself in society.) After all our deaths are our births into eternity. So from God perspective death is not the sin people without God make it out to be.
Which means if God want to order the death of 70,000 people then He has the authority and right to do so.
So what is murder and why can't we do that? Murder is the unsactioned taking of life. It is the willful taking of human life by a person who do not have the right and authority to do so. This is also the way society views death as well.
