(June 16, 2017 at 7:52 am)alpha male Wrote:I think we all know the story. God trolls Abe, hard, and Abe's all like "doy doy doy" -but ofc the story itself isn't even remotely the interesting part - or what we were discussing...so?(June 16, 2017 at 6:01 am)Khemikal Wrote: Notice how, in the running and pissing pants theory of atheist encounters with a god..there's still no child sacrifice?
Yes. Notice how, in the account of Abraham which inspired this question...there wasn't any child sacrifice?
The dilemma is familiar to us all, though exagerated for effect in magic book. What do we do when compelled by authority to commit the unthinkable? What is it about a person or an authority that would place us in distinctly different categories of response? Wherein one person says "no, never" - and another says "maybe"...and a third says "doy doy doy" and grabs the knife.......with reference to child sacrifice?
It seems as though any answer to those questions would be profoundly disturbing, not that I expect them from you. I'm getting a distinctly trollish vibe, and I suspect that's how Abe would have felt after the whole ordeal was over. Who contends that they would, maybe, kill their son, and responds to criticism of that sinister affirmation by calling anyone who wouldn't a pussy?
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