(October 30, 2014 at 12:50 pm)professor Wrote: The fiendish murderer gets off completely free after he blows up innocent people with himself.
Yet, I know you guys have a strong sense of justice.
It comes out in your posts.
In a world seen thru the lens of atheism, how does ultimate justice have any meaning?
Doesn't the terrorist's cheating his due reward grate at your thinking?
Doesn't deep down inside you scream that something is wrong?
The following is just based on what I think you're trying to communicate with this post. Although I could be wrong, but I think you're trying to say does it not make me think there must be a higher justice system in this world or else everything is really messed up and there's no true justice.
1) Believing in many religious claims results in less justice being applied on this earth. (In my opinion probably the only justice which actually does exist.)
Because say for example an enemy of mine comes to my house and kills my parents, if I don't believe in the bible or anything Jesus says then I kill the intruders and probably save my own life in doing so since they probably would kill me next. But if I love my enemy as Jesus asks me to do then I approach the intruders asking if they want a hug and they butcher me to death.
That's if you interprete what Jesus said in the bible to mean love your enemies, which brings me to my next point.....
2) There's thousands of different religions out there with millions of interpretations of each religion, some people might genuinely believe they are doing good, for example the terrorist you mentioned might genuinely believe he is fighting devils, infidels, the disbelievers, and that god will reward him.
It doesn't seem fair that god gives out books open to interpretation and translation errors and so on, and gives these books out to people with brains capable of error and misinterpretation.
Anyway those are the first two objections which come to mind I'll have to finish this off later.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
