if god told me to kill my kids (if i have them), then without hesitating I will....especially after I look at the bills....lol jk....murdering kids is wrong unless God really tells you to do it.
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If I saw this guy on the street, I would run the other way. Fast. No, kids, you can't play with Nick X's children.
I really have no problem with this statement. It just means there will be less fundies around later to reproduce. Go ahead, God told me that he wants you to kill your kids. Do it or you will go to hell, he told me.
Why do people willingly accept the word of God even if they recognized it as evil(it already is, but that's an argument for another day)? If God were to tell me to kill someone important to me, a friend, a family member, anyone like that, then I would cordially invite God to rim a donkey.
I'd rather go to ZOMG HELL!!!! than hurt someone I love. Sad that fundies can't see it that way.
Why is killing someone because "God told you to do it" any better than killing someone because "Joe Schmoe" or "Jane Authority Figure" told you to? In both cases, you're committing an immoral act on the say-so of someone else.
If the idea is that God is all-powerful and can send you to Hell if you disobey... again, how is that any different than cowing to any other authority figure, and doing something you know to be wrong under pressure from them? It smacks of cowardice and fear, more than piety. How is that something to brag about?
If the idea is that whatever God says must automatically be "right," regardless of his previous commandments and every human instinct, then that, in addition to being logically circular and whimsically relativistic, is still fucked up. And the God of the Bible has a history of going, "Hey, you're right, that would be unjust of me," when humans address him about something they perceive to be wrong. I figure it's quite appropriate, should God ask you to murder your children, to say, "God, what's the good of that? That seems pretty messed up. You told us not to kill. Why should I kill my kid, and why can't there be a better solution?" And then hopefully God would be like, "Ha ha, good for you. I was testing to see whether you were a boot-licking automaton who would commit atrocities on My behest, or a moral individual with a sense of ethics and integrity, who would challenge injustice and refuse to do that which they considered wrong."
"if god told me to kill my kids (if i have them), then without hesitating I will..."
does he really think there's a future
Mrs X looking to procreate after that statement? Wait, sorry, there probably is.
Well, in that case!
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In this guy's defense, I attended a kinda-mainstream-kinda-fundie Southern Baptist church a few years back and this same question came up -- would you kill your kids if God asked you to? The consensus, or at least the impression I got from my Sunday School teacher, was that the "good" thing to do would be to obey God and kill your kids, but few people would have enough faith to actually obey God in this instance.
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For an even more depressing view of things...
What I'd like to know is how he can tell God's voice from Satan's voice? I mean, any devil worth his salt would surely be going around saying "Hey, this is god, kill your kids for me will ya?".
I love the "lol jk"...just a liiiittle guilty right there, eh? Yeah as Az noted - who's to say that's not the voice of a demon? Even fundies would accept that as a possibility. In fact, they'd go as far as to say that they should question it using scripture or prayer. What happened to unquestioning acceptance?
Schizo or spiritual, it's a non-issue...as a poster on this chap's MySpace noted, "People who believe themselves 'righteous enough' to hear from God usually suffer from profound delusion."
In short - Bedlam for Mr. X, please. I don't care if he's nuts or not, I don't want his God telling him to end any life.
Christians are saved by grace and faith... not by works.
If I was asked by "God" to kill my kids- there is no way I would. He won't send me to Hell if I won't.
However, Abraham knew God really well and predicted that his son would return from the mountains. Now he really knew God close and personal unlike many people today...
Type "people who killed because God told them to" into Google. Lots of cases, fundies think it's justification for nearly anything.
In some of the cases you'll see that loophole they use when answering yes to would you kill your kids under Gods command: "God wouldn't do that"
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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