From: bb099@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Adam Trent Phillips)
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Re: Would you do ANYTHING God told you....?
Date: 15 Sep 1992 17:42:22 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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In a previous post, exukjb@exu.ericsson.se (ken bell) sez:
 
>In article <88903@netnews.upenn.edu> stuart@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Joseph Stuart ) writes:
>>From: stuart@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Joseph Stuart )
>>Subject: Re: Would you do ANYTHING God told you....?
>>Date: 14 Sep 92 16:52:30 GMT
>
>>In article <192basINNl90@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bb099@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Adam Trent Phillips) writes:
>>>       For example, if God told you to kill a 17 month old baby, would
>>>you do it ? I am not asking IF God would ask you to do such an evil thing,
>>>but would you do it if God told you ?
>>>       I have never heard a decent answer, most say something like "my
>>>God would never ask such a thing". But I am not asking if God would ask,
>>>but if God asked them to do it, would they do it ? So, let me put it this way,
 
>>Not only is this a merely evasive answer, but, in the case of Judaism, 
>>Christianity and Islam, it is a mistaken answer since God asked Abraham to
>>do just that.  Of course he didn't make Abraham carry through with it, but
>>he did take the "joke" pretty far.  If he did it once, why couldn't he do
>>it again?
 
>>scott
 
>No Abraham didn't, but Saul went into a nearby city and killed every man,
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>women, and child. And when he came back from this slaughter-campaign, God
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>rebuked him because he failed to kill the cattle too, and other little
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>animals.
 
 
	This is my point. What if God asked you to go to New Jersey, and kill
all of the men, women, children and dogs ? God had someone do it once before
, why would he not ask that to be done again ? Is he not the same god now
that he was then? What about the Son of Sam, why is that we do not beleave it
 when a man says that he is the son of a Beagle shaped God, sent to kill. God
 did appear as a flaming bush, why not a Beagle. I am not trying to say that
all chri$tians are potential baby-killers, but I am trying to point out some
of the stupid conclusions one can draw if one uses a method of though based
on superstition, rather than something closer to reality.
 
 
 
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	P.S: by mistake, I corected a spelling error in another users
	     statement.....


^^^^^^^^^^= emphasis mine :-)

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