RE: Hell and the Play Nice Christian
February 18, 2015 at 5:44 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2015 at 5:48 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
(February 18, 2015 at 3:56 pm)YGninja Wrote: The knowledge of God, and his laws, is put into your heart. Whether you follow them or not is entirely at your discretion. The Bible isnt the map, rather just an explanation of it.
Surely you see the question that this raises...
There are billions of people on this earth. Some believe in God, and some give the voices in their heads different names. Ignoring the fact that this knowledge of God is indistinguishable from my own intuition, what do you say about the people in this world who claim to possess exclusive knowledge of a different God?
In Africa, where AIDS is one of the leading causes of death, I can say it's morally appalling when I hear that Catholic missionaries are teaching people of that country that condoms cause disease in order to prevent them from having safe recreational sex. They are telling people that AIDS is bad, but condoms are worse. That's the message they've interpreted from their God, and you've explicitly condoned this way of thinking as a path to a life that you believe to be more valuable than the earthly one we experience.
When a Christian protest group celebrates in front of a mourning family at the funeral of a dead soldier for being killed in a war their God did not support, what can you say to these people? They're doing what you've said to do...
When a martyr blows himself up while carrying out the instructions he found placed in his heart by religion of his culture, I can say that this person is delusional and has been brainwashed by a cult to interpret his own intuition as a divine message...
But my question to you is, without sounding like a complete hypocrite, what can YOU say to people who act on what they believe to be divine command when what they've done is in conflict with your own moral intuition? Can you point to anything wrong with what these people are doing and why it's demonstrably different than what you've just said? You've already granted credence to the act of labeling one's internal thoughts as divine instruction and you leave no criteria by which to distinguish holy commands from delusional ones.
What say you?
