RE: How would you respond to a person killing someone else because God told him to?
July 17, 2010 at 5:59 pm
(July 17, 2010 at 5:21 pm)Godhead Wrote: Minimalist -
Not everyone who believes in god has any interest in battling with others over the details. But going back to the issue here, what GWB said was designed to appeal to those who already agree with him about either god having told him to start the war, or, about the war being justified on any grounds whatsoever. It would not have changed anybody's mind about anything.
No, I am fairly sure that he believed God had commanded him to start a war. For obvious reasons, I don't believe God did do so, any more than you do, but there's no reason to doubt his sincerity, apart from the fact that he was a politician, as most politicians are duplicitous bastards. Also, it may well have changed some people's minds, or at least got them off the fence. Credulous rednecks might well have believed that God spoke to him.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
