(December 14, 2014 at 11:17 am)Drich Wrote: Fire fighters don't train themselves for years to run into a building while everyone else is running out? Some intend to spend a life time doing this very thing. Many on 9/11 did.
The same is true for the soldier, and an arguement can be made for the mother. While the indivisual desisions may have been made in a relative short amount of time when compared to an infinite past, I would say if one's duty or love is that strong to have themselves sacrifice themselves for another, these people would do this no matter how much time they had to think about it.
Not quite the same as my brother firefighters running into WTC 2 knowing goddamned well they were staring into eternity. Your god had it easy. I wonder how many of those firefighters ran to their deaths without being saved, meaning that they chose an eternity in hell (by your theology) to save their fellow men?
That looks like a much deeper, and much less vainglorious, sacrifice than your little Christ giving up a weekend drinking wine with his homies.
