(June 16, 2015 at 1:16 am)Rhythm Wrote:Quote:I am sure a lot of Muslims are pleasing God. But people who kill others are not pleasing God, regardless of their religion.
Your certainties regarding god don't carry much weight with me..but here again, there are those who would disagree. If a person truly believes that a god, who is good by definition, has ordered them to kill (and isn't that story familiar) or desires the death of some other group or person (yet another story which should be familiar to you)......are they being immoral when they act upon this?
Yes. The objective ACT of killing a person is always immoral. What changes is that person's culpability. Perhaps a person's culpability would be lessened if they were mentally ill or if they were so far gone that they truly believed what they were doing was good.
But I believe it is not our job to determine another person's culpability, since we cannot see what is in their hearts. Our job is simply to determine objective morality, and leave the judging of that person's soul to God's mercy.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
