God and Babies

[JoeyKnothead]

There's recent discussion of killing babies, and how God may or may not 'preciate such.

For debate:

Who here would kill a baby because a god didn't like it?

[dianaiad]

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I agree that the men that wrote them were aiming for truth. Apparently, they missed wildly. For that reason, I don't base my belief system on their odd collection of tribal mythology. Why do you?

I don't.

[Autodidact]

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I agree that the men that wrote them were aiming for truth. Apparently, they missed wildly. For that reason, I don't base my belief system on their odd collection of tribal mythology. Why do you?

I don't.

You don't? You don't believe in and worship the God of the Bible?

[JoeyKnothead]

From Post 13:

Here's the thing; He wouldn't tell me to.

There's no 'if,' here. He wouldn't. To put it in terms an atheist..or non-theist..might accept, that's like asking what I would do if Captain Ahab applied for a job as cabin boy on the MV Steve Irwin.

I can only conclude you don't wish to answer a simple question.

If you don't wish to answer the question in the OP, I respectfully request you not muddy the thread with side issues unrelated to the one question the OP asks.

[JoeyKnothead]

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However, this question appears to be ultimately entrapment unless the OP admits that it involves a real being called "a god" which demands such from the "believer" and that it is not some psychotic episode.

The existence of the god in question is assumed, and the OP doesn't consider a psychotic episode to be occurring.

[Braveheart]

I'm feeling lazy today, so I'm just gonna' pull a previous post of mine out of the hole...

Why is killing wrong? who says what is wrong for us is wrong for God? I like to look at it this way: a man plants a garden. He has full rights to do whatever the heck he wants with it, because he planted it. However, if a weed tries to kill one of his plants, he has full right to beat the livin' tar out of that weed. God created us. He has full rights do whatever he wants with us. Other people do not. Get the picture?

[JoeyKnothead]

From Post 25:

I'm feeling lazy today, so I'm just gonna' pull a previous post of mine out of the hole...

Quote:

Why is killing wrong? who says what is wrong for us is wrong for God? I like to look at it this way: a man plants a garden. He has full rights to do whatever the heck he wants with it, because he planted it. However, if a weed tries to kill one of his plants, he has full right to beat the livin' tar out of that weed. God created us. He has full rights do whatever he wants with us. Other people do not. Get the picture?

The picture I get is of a person who doesn't wish to answer the one question asked in the OP.

[100%atheist]

There's recent discussion of killing babies, and how God may or may not 'preciate such.

For debate:

Who here would kill a baby because a god didn't like it?

At last, I would like to directly respond to your question. I have two versions:
1) I will kill babies without a blink if this would be the will of God. Who am I after all to have my own thoughts.

2) I would go against God's will and I will be most likely sent to hell because I put my moral principles above God's commands.

Hard to tell how I would behave if God reveals himself and starts manual managements on this planet.

[salvation2011]

Yea, it's horrible to think of killing a baby because God doesn't like it. Now killing a fetus because the mother doesn't like it, that's a different story

Indeed! AND, how would you be able to determine who is doing the disliking.... the "voice in the head" telling you to kill it could be from God or from a psychosis By psychosis... I mean pregnancy induced or just flat out there... and as you mentioned lets not forget the human factor for someone not wanting a baby and aborting it before its born (although i think the OP is talking about killing once the baby is here).

[Goat]

Yea, it's horrible to think of killing a baby because God doesn't like it. Now killing a fetus because the mother doesn't like it, that's a different story

Indeed! AND, how would you be able to determine who is doing the disliking.... the "voice in the head" telling you to kill it could be from God or from a psychosis By psychosis... I mean pregnancy induced or just flat out there... and as you mentioned lets not forget the human factor for someone not wanting a baby and aborting it before its born (although i think the OP is talking about killing once the baby is here).

Of course, there is a substantial difference between a baby and a fetus. .. and a claim that "God told me', and a choice a woman makes about her own body.

I would like either of you to go to the thread that asked and answer the question.

'if you were in a fertility clinic that was on fire, and had a choice to save either a baby , or some embryo's, which would you save'?

[Strider324]

I'm feeling lazy today, so I'm just gonna' pull a previous post of mine out of the hole...

Why is killing wrong? who says what is wrong for us is wrong for God? I like to look at it this way: a man plants a garden. He has full rights to do whatever the heck he wants with it, because he planted it. However, if a weed tries to kill one of his plants, he has full right to beat the livin' tar out of that weed. God created us. He has full rights do whatever he wants with us. Other people do not. Get the picture?

Humans are not plants. And your god arbitrarily kills the plants as well as the weeds. And if your concept of your god is that he views us with the same contempt or lack of empathy that your truculent little gardener does, you can keep him.

Yes, you are being awfully lazy.....