RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 22, 2015 at 5:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2015 at 5:23 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(February 22, 2015 at 4:55 pm)Drich Wrote: That is why we all eventually devolve into a nazi/ISIS type of self righteousness.
Speak for yourself. If the only thing keeping you from slipping into depravity is your faith in God, by all means, please keep believing. The world doesn't need any more genocidal maniacs.
Oddly enough, even though I'm a moral relativist, I haven't gotten around to killing one single person ... unlike so many theists who assert moral absolutism.
(February 22, 2015 at 4:55 pm)Drich Wrote: That begs the question is God 'good' given what popular culture deems to be acceptable behavior? No. But, again so what?
The god you worship is evil by any yardstick. He orders genocide, and indeed commits it himself. He practices collective punishment. He holds his own creation hostage to his whim, threatening us with eternal punishment if we practice the free will you allege he gave us. Those are the actions of a sociopath.
And you worship him.