(March 27, 2015 at 7:14 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(March 25, 2015 at 6:57 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Atheists would judge him harshly and punish this guy for his crimes, whereas his GOD would completely forgive this torturous murderer if only he would stroke god's ego at least a few seconds before he died.
Robertson could spend eternity praising jeebus right beside the man that cut off his pecker and slaughtered his family, and he calls us evil???
Lets not think in terms of labels, there are lots of believers and atheists who would want revenge for rape(mob rule). And there there are lots of believers and atheists who would take an arrest contain and let the jury do it,(rule of law).
I myself as an atheist would have the same emotional reaction to rape, my mom was raped when I was a teen. But I it still would not give me the right to take the law into my own hands after the fact. And I don't like our growing Nacy Grace presume guilt media either. I still would rather let the guilty go free than to convict one innocent person.
Now that does not negate the horrible morality of the God character. Has the power to stop bad things but does not. Believers, left or right still are not getting their morals out of that book like they think, their morals are in them, the book just gives them excuses to follow a comic book.
Our morality is in our species, not our labels.
I agree with you, but that was not the point of the conversation. The dichotomy I was referring to was between God himself and atheists, not between Theists and Atheists.
God would not hold the murderer accountable if the killer spiritually blew him, but the atheists he vilifies for not believing in objective morals would generally hold the hypothetical murderer to justice even if they wouldn't necessarily agree on the severity of the punishment.
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