If your deity asked you to kill your child, would you do it?

[Taylor Seraphim]

If your deity asked you to kill your child would you do it?

 

[Revoltingest]

I really wanted to vote <no>, but option #3 seems more in the spirit of your poll.
If I had a deity, I wouldn't obey an order to kill a child.

 

[Terese]

Narayana would do no such thing to me. i vote no.

 

[Taylor Seraphim]

Narayana would do no such thing to me. i vote no.

I did not ask if your deity would.

I am asking what would you do if it did.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

 

[Sunstone]

If I had a deity, I would disobey an order to kill my child partly on the grounds that I am still under a moral obligation to disobey immoral orders no matter what their source.

 

[Terese]

I did not ask if your deity would.

I am asking what would you do if it did.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

Nope. Precious life, and the fact that it is someone i am attached to.

 

[LuisDantas]

I really wanted to vote <no>, but option #3 seems more in the spirit of your poll.
If I had a deity, I wouldn't obey an order to kill a child.

Same here.

Deities are expected to behave.

Well, not behave necessarily. But to have some modicum of common sense and ability to be reasonable, at least.

Such an unworthy deity is just that - unworthy.

 

[Taylor Seraphim]

Nope. Precious life, and the fact that it is someone i am attached to.

However does that mean that your morals come from you and not your deity?

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I really wanted to vote <no>, but option #3 seems more in the spirit of your poll.
If I had a deity, I wouldn't obey an order to kill a child.

+1 this

 

[Revoltingest]

Same here.
Deities are expected to behave.
Well, not behave necessarily. But to have some modicum of common sense and ability to be reasonable, at least.
Such an unworthy deity is just that - unworthy.

Even if the deity were worthy, if I received a command to kill a child, I'd first ask myself....
"Am I hearing this right?"
"Am I insane, & hearing evil voices?"
"I'd prefer to risk eternal damnation in the Lake Of Fire than trust that it's really a deity telling me to do something so evil."

 

[Sunstone]

In the end, we are always moral agents. Even if we act according to the commands of a deity, we are in some sense asserting our own moral beliefs -- such as the belief that we should obey the commands of a deity.

 

[Maponos]

Thankfully I won't be having children, but if I did, I'd have no choice but to do so. My loyalty to the gods trumps everything.

 

[Corthos]

Ahura Mazda isn't that kind of God. He doesn't seek people out like Yahweh, and he wouldn't command death for anyone.

That said, -IF HE DID- (and went against everything I know about him in the Gathas), I absolutely would not do as he commanded. Such Gods are petty, and aren't worthy of anyone's time...

 

[Mindmaster]

Eh, what's a little blood between a man and his god?

Toss a baby over a fire pit and apparently you are giving them to Molech so you might as well seal the deal, right?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Thankfully I won't be having children, but if I did, I'd have no choice but to do so. My loyalty to the gods trumps everything.

Respect for answering honestly.

 

[psychoslice]

Thankfully I won't be having children, but if I did, I'd have no choice but to do so. My loyalty to the gods trumps everything.

That's good that you are not having children.

 

[George-ananda]

If your deity asked you to kill your child would you do it?

No, in non-dualist Hinduism (God and creation are not-two) God is the core in all of us and it tells me 'No'.

 

[Taylor Seraphim]

Thankfully I won't be having children, but if I did, I'd have no choice but to do so. My loyalty to the gods trumps everything.

So if you would follow the gods even if they asked you to do that, does that mean that you worship the gods just because they are more powerful than you?

 

[Taylor Seraphim]

Eh, what's a little blood between a man and his god?

Toss a baby over a fire pit and apparently you are giving them to Molech so you might as well seal the deal, right?

Please tell me you are being sarcastic.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

No, in non-dualist Hinduism (God and creation are not-two) God is the core in all of us and it tells me 'No'.

And non-dualists who perform blood sacrifices to God are still hearing that same God telling them to do it. Lol.