(November 5, 2014 at 12:56 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(November 5, 2014 at 12:49 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Ahh, but children can't "die" they just return to God. which is why Jesus refereed to a dead Girl one tame as "asleep" to which the Bible says the "people laughed him to scorn" because they didn't know what he meant.
Wow, that gives me like fifty eight methods of attack.
First of all, I expect you'll never again use free will as an excuse for god's actions, since you've just accepted and endorsed the fact that god violated the free will of these children when it was convenient to him. Secondly, you're apparently okay with god requiring that these babies be violently murdered, rather than just letting them pass away in their sleep before the attack. Speaking of which, why would god bother to let all those babies be born anyway, if he was just going to kill them so early in their lives? Did he just really need to see some babies being gutted? That's pretty sick.
Hey, couldn't god have instead had those kids adopted out into the families of his followers, so they could have led rich lives helping people on earth, instead of just being... you know, pointlessly slaughtered?
What I find particularly telling about this is that you give no thought at all to the needless infliction of mortal injury on babies. Regardless of whether they went to heaven or not- and I think this is just a dodge on your part- the act of killing a baby is still deeply immoral and disturbing, yet you're apparently okay with it, or pretending you are, to win rhetorical points. The inhumanity of christianity shows again.
The problem is, you see things from such a narrow point of view. When a child is born into the world, there is suffering for both mother and child, not to mention bloody, yet do we say this is a terrible thing? no. when a child is born it is a joyous occasion, and the suffering is no longer remembered.
Quote:Psalm 116:15
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
like wise for those that return to God, it is a joyous occasion in heaven. Death is simply a transition from one place to another, is suffering sometimes involved? sure, but suffering is involved during birth, but that moment of suffering will no longer be remember once you step into eternity.
