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

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

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 16.7%
  • No

    Votes: 26 54.2%
  • I do not believe in a deity.

    Votes: 14 29.2%

  • Total voters
    48

Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
It is your choice.

Yep. Most mothers would give their life for their child live. If they said, "except if god asked, I wouldntdo it because i fear hell" then I be like "wait, sacrifice is sacrifice. Theres no reservations and preferences in sacrifice"

I just hope you arent presented with that decision. In abortion, many would keep the child and the mother die. I never heard the other way around.
 

use_your_brain

Active Member
Yep. Most mothers would give their life for their child live. If they said, "except if god asked, I wouldntdo it because i fear hell" then I be like "wait, sacrifice is sacrifice. Theres no reservations and preferences in sacrifice"

I just hope you arent presented with that decision. In abortion, many would keep the child and the mother die. I never heard the other way around.
Then you don't mind to go to hell.
 

Buttercup

Veteran Member
Can I ask where you get your beliefs, if anywhere at all? Seems very Zoroastrian. =)
My beliefs are pretty much a mish-mash of what I've learned through life. I definitely view our conscious as our 'God given" source for knowledge regarding right and wrong behavior and how to treat others. I have to admit that I'm not sure I believe in a supernatural God, per se, however. I do have a deep respect for Zoroastrianism, though. :)
 

SpeaksForTheTrees

Well-Known Member
My anti natal side is influencing my thinking on this , is a good argument to be made for ending it on compassionate grounds .
We impose great horrors on our children is a game they can never win , regardless.
Can't even see a child from space they really tiny .
 

Taylor Seraphim

Angel of Reason
My anti natal side is influencing my thinking on this , is a good argument to be made for ending it on compassionate grounds .
We impose great horrors on our children is a game they can never win , regardless.
Can't even see a child from space they really tiny .

First of all very rhetoric esque.

Second of all you cannot see us from space either.
 

The Emperor of Mankind

Currently the galaxy's spookiest paraplegic
If your deity asked you to kill your child would you do it?

Some of the answers I've seen here are, quite frankly, disturbing. To answer the question for myself: I would not and I'd be astonished if any of the gods I worship asked such a thing of me. I'd refuse out of principal and would most likely walk away from them out of disgust. Dionysus is the one god I worship for whom human sacrifice would seem not too beyond the realm of his character or historical cult - that said, I'd still refuse to do it.

No god worthy of worship by free men would demand such a thing. A god who makes slaves of his or her worshippers might ask such a thing, perhaps.
 

The Emperor of Mankind

Currently the galaxy's spookiest paraplegic
I would obey Him.

We simply attempt to obey our God.

What type of devotion is it?
It is the pure devotion to God, as long as it pleased Him.

Does God ever tell us to do so? Remember, it is a hypothetical question.
"
If your deity asked you to eat your poop would you do it?
"
I would obey Him.

The reason why I would obey Him, because I am afraid of His wrath that may make me go to hell.

how xxxxx pleases God?
Because it is what the God orders. Replace xxxxx with any type of words.


So your devotion to a god is based on the power he or she possesses first, and how moral they are second? It comes across that the question of Allah's morality (or lack thereof) isn't actually that important to you. Is this the case?
 

use_your_brain

Active Member
So your devotion to a god is based on the power he or she possesses first, and how moral they are second? It comes across that the question of Allah's morality (or lack thereof) isn't actually that important to you. Is this the case?
No, it isn't but rather it is based on fear and hope. I fear of hell, and I hope paradise and salvation.
 
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