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

[use_your_brain]

Yes. I am giving my life so my child can live. Sacrifice.

It is your choice.

 

[Corthos]

No, I wouldn't. What about you?

I would, without a second thought.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

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]

I would, without a second thought.

Good.

 

[use_your_brain]

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]

Then you don't mind to go to hell.

Hell is a place we create. I don't plan on ever creating my own hell.

 

[use_your_brain]

Hell is a place we create. I don't plan on ever creating my own hell.

I mean hell in afterlife.

 

[Taylor Seraphim]

I dont even think I can get proper sleep now. This baboozles me.

This is why faith is a double edged sword.

 

[Buttercup]

I mean hell in afterlife.

I do believe in an afterlife. I also believe if there is a hell, we create it for ourselves. It's quite simple, in my mind.

 

[Corthos]

I do believe in an afterlife. I also believe if there is a hell, we create it for ourselves. It's quite simple, in my mind.

Can I ask where you get your beliefs, if anywhere at all? Seems very Zoroastrian. =)

 

[use_your_brain]

I do believe in an afterlife. I also believe if there is a hell, we create it for ourselves. It's quite simple, in my mind.

God created the hell, it is not created by mind.

 

[Buttercup]

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.

 

[Riverwolf]

NO!

And frankly, I'd seriously question having a further relationship with any deity that asked such a thing of me.

 

[Taylor Seraphim]

But you would go to hell for not obeying Him. Is that ok?

Totally.

 

[Taylor Seraphim]

God created the hell, it is not created by mind.

Sounds like an ******* for doing that.

 

[SpeaksForTheTrees]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.