RE: IF in the end, you find that God does exist ....
June 1, 2015 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2015 at 10:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That's the strange thing about religion. It becomes commonplace, the tenets conversationally acceptable, even when they shouldn't be. Things fly under the radar because we are acclimated to both the notion and the adherents. So a person might never, for example, realize that there's a nasty ethical problem with vicarious redemption. That there are reasons to decline the "gift" even if it -were- offered....and that we make this sort of determination regularly in our lives with no trouble identifying why we should decline - even a christer could tell you why he can;t accept blood money, why he shouldn't set someone else up for the fall, or accept that another be punished for his own misdeeds.
-que endless litany of "oh, but it's totally different when it comes to christ" yes, yes..we know that you believe that.
I can't help but conclude that accepting this offer of redemption, would instantly disqualify a person from deserving redemption in the first place. But hey, if we're handing out redemption to the undeserving (and some christers would have no trouble with that statement, granted) then whats this business about withholding redemption based on lack of fealty......? Meh, who knows, I find it impossible to put myself into the shoes of a moral and ethical midget.
-que endless litany of "oh, but it's totally different when it comes to christ" yes, yes..we know that you believe that.
I can't help but conclude that accepting this offer of redemption, would instantly disqualify a person from deserving redemption in the first place. But hey, if we're handing out redemption to the undeserving (and some christers would have no trouble with that statement, granted) then whats this business about withholding redemption based on lack of fealty......? Meh, who knows, I find it impossible to put myself into the shoes of a moral and ethical midget.
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