Why does God Kill Babies

[Faith No More]

I'd like to reply to this and all the other scathing remarks about the above post. All I hear on this forum is how irrational christians are. Now this was a very rational statement and I get it for being callous. Christians believe in eternal life. If I die as an infant and I meet someone in heaven who died at 100 years old, I'm not going to be upset because he got to live longer than me. We both have eternity. In fact, I might be grateful that I died fast instead of suffering a long and painful death. If my kids died now, I would be devastated because I love them I'd miss them. In fact, I'll be devastated whenever they die. But I'd be happy to know that they're in heaven and living a joyous existence. To a christian life on earth is important, but it's only a minute part of our total existence.

Having internally consistent beliefs doesn't make them rational, and the problem that we have with your statement is the fact that defending infant genocide isn't a red flag for you that something may be wrong with your beliefs. No, it's just "Well, god gets to do what he wants" without a moment's pause that perhaps your beliefs are a barbaric relic of history. That is what is truly terrifying.

As far as why God kills babies, all I said was my true thoughts. It's for the same reason he kills adults. Before mankind's sin, there was no death and afterwards there was death. Like I said, we don't know the mind of God. We're not allowed to murder and in fact we're commanded to love and care for our neighbors and even our enemies. We are to leave justice and vengeance to God and go on loving just as Jesus demonstrated.

No, we don't know the mind of god, but if we are to evaluate the validity of your beliefs, we have to judge the behavior of your deity. We have to ask ourselves if we think this is the type of behavior an omniscient, omnipotent being would partake in. What's a shame is that you feel the need to leave your rationality at the door in order to maintain your security blanket.