Pagan_Patriot
Active Member
Parents aren't that fair either.
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Are Natural Disasters Punishment From God?
- Thread starter starlite
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Parents aren't that fair either.
Rainbow Mage
Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
Tell me, would we call a parent that kills their children as punishment a good parent?
Pagan_Patriot
Active Member
It depends. Maybe the child killed someone else. Yemen does it all the time.
And besides, parents are humans. God is above us. He can do what He wants to show us not to make mistakes.
Rainbow Mage
Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
It depends? Seriously? And I don't live in Yemen.
Pagan_Patriot
Active Member
What if your child killed someone?
Sha'irullah
رسول الآلهة
So you are saying Yahweh is fallible? He makes mistakes like human parents? He forgets? He is unaware of his children's deeds and punishes them unjustly?
Rainbow Mage
Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
I sure wouldn't kill my child myself. Rather the justice system did it is another matter. I don't think a good parent could kill their own child. The parent analogy makes the orthodox Christian view of God look even worse
Pagan_Patriot
Active Member
Except they're not mistakes. They're intentional.
Sha'irullah
رسول الآلهة
So if they are intentional then he is not just? He has no sense of morals like we do? He gives out mandates of ethical conduct such as one of the 10 commandments which is Thou shalt not kill then does it himself?
But then again he does order his own followers to kill for him. Not even Saul himself could do Yahweh's work and commit and act of genocide upon an innocent people.
Pagan_Patriot
Active Member
I used it only because he doesn't believe in this God. If I keep bringing up God in these arguments, he'll just not care.
Rainbow Mage
Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
Yeah Saul's story is really kind of strange. He gets rejected by Yahweh completely and dies a terrible death because he kept the animals and the king alive.
That's another aspect of the OT that always confused me too- kill even the animals
What did the animals do to get on Yahweh's bad side?
That's another aspect of the OT that always confused me too- kill even the animals
What did the animals do to get on Yahweh's bad side?
Pagan_Patriot
Active Member
Well it's happened more than once in the Bible.
Sha'irullah
رسول الآلهة
Pagan_Patriot
Active Member
I rest my case.
Sha'irullah
رسول الآلهة
No your level of empathy or lack there of just resembles Adolt Hitler who was quite fond of genocide. Thinking about it just injured my brain that's all
Pagan_Patriot
Active Member
Well you don't believe in the same God I do, so of course it would be hard for you to understand, just like it would be hard for me to understand whatever you believe in. It's a pointless argument.
Sha'irullah
رسول الآلهة
Well actually I was a Christian and was indoctrinated to believe the exact same that you believed. I recall Hurricane Katrina occurring and believing it was because of the wrath of Yahweh. But this did not last long.
So to say that I do not understand is quite an understatement.
Pagan_Patriot
Active Member
That place was full of gangbangers and prostitutes, so it's not that hard to believe.
Ingledsva
HEATHEN ALASKAN
"Satan" doesn't make people do anything. People commit evil acts because THEY want to.
McBell
Admiral Obvious
Really?
So what was the reason that that particular place of gangbangers and prostitutes received "the wrath of God" and none of the other places full of gangbangers and prostitutes?