RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
July 30, 2020 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2020 at 2:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Perhaps human beings can already conceive of use cases for genocide, by that term or any other, and christianity simply manipulates those use cases.
It posits, in a very roundabout and idiosyncratic way, at least two types of people. The good and the bad. Conceptually, god is or will eliminate the bad ones. When we think of acceptable use cases for the extermination of an entire group of people, The Bad Ones immediately spring to mind as a potentially acceptable target. A bad man may commit genocide because it's tuesday, but a good man requires justifications, which magic book offers as a requirement of it's continued existence. If christianity failed to deliver desired goods, christianity would cease to exist.
It posits, in a very roundabout and idiosyncratic way, at least two types of people. The good and the bad. Conceptually, god is or will eliminate the bad ones. When we think of acceptable use cases for the extermination of an entire group of people, The Bad Ones immediately spring to mind as a potentially acceptable target. A bad man may commit genocide because it's tuesday, but a good man requires justifications, which magic book offers as a requirement of it's continued existence. If christianity failed to deliver desired goods, christianity would cease to exist.
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