(July 11, 2015 at 3:52 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: Now let's say one day we're moving a new table in, and the dog runs past and bumps the table with the urn on it, sending it teetering toward the edge of the table, potentially (but maybe not necessarily) about to fall and break. Because my son is the only one within reach and he knows that the urn us precious to me, he makes the split-second decision to reach out and catch it instead of following my order to not touch it, saving the urn from damage in the process.
Because you are finite and not able to prevent the permanent damage to the urn or the mess that would be created if it shattered, it would seem really great to you that your son caught the urn.
Quote:What would I do in this situation? Weeell...if I were the kind of parent Jehovah seems to be, I would get angry, draw my gun from my coat, and blow that little fucker's head off without mercy or hesitation to teach his siblings that I MUST NOT BE DISOBEYED on pain of death.
If you had a couple of million people whose very lives might well depend on how closely they obeyed you, then you very well might. And if you were an infinite being, you MIGHT be in a position to bring that child into an eternal state of bliss after he died.
Quote:I'd like to think that I'd be a better parent than that prick, though. I would probably thank my son for saving the urn, praise his critical thinking skills for realizing that the exact wording of my rules takes a back seat to their intended purpose, and apologize to him for valuing grandma's ashes so highly in the first place when I have a family who loves me enough to risk my wrath in attempts to save something I clearly care about.
As a finite being who did not have a GREATER purpose in mind for the clear instructions issued to his children, you would be correct.
Quote:So yeah...your sky-man is a hateful prick and a horrible father. He even killed his own kid to free the mean neighborhood kids from accountability (which doesn't even make sense). If he were a human and treated his kids the way he supposedly treats us, social services would fuck him in the ass for years, and they certainly wouldn't let him see his kids again.
And yeah, I'm married. No kids, though. Fuck that shit.[/color]
Do you talk like this all the time? Or only online when speaking to Christians?
