First you object to my proposal to stop child killing as coersion - THEN, when I point out that the threat of eternal punishment is the ULTIMATE in abusive coersion, suddenly coersion is divinely blessed.
In my proposal, no one is coerced not to kill any more than we are coerced not to be able to flap our wings and fly - it would merely become a physical fact - we can't breathe under water, and we can't breathe when we are planning to kill children. Same free will, with a slightly more effective punishment/deterent for making the BAD choice.
Other sins? Maybe, maybe not - the point is,
if I can devise a slightly improved human design, then I have beaten the imaginary designer at his own imagined game. And, I have, easily - I have curtailed child-murder while preserving our free will to sin like raving drunken harlots whenever our free will so chooses. I could still freely love, or not, I just wouldn't be able to kill kids. The two are independent.
Yet, you are so fond of your sins - or even, just your POTENTIAL to sin - that you are willing to embrace potential child murdering in order to keep an odious, evil choice.
If that makes you worthy of your god, then I'm happy for both of you, but I want no part of such obvious evil.
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Why and how do you resolve it when you can't agree? Goodness...we as humans can't agree on the best form of government or even on the best way to eat, let alone on what is universally right and wrong. All you have to do is watch a few minutes of the evening news to see how well that's worked for us so far.
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We seem to muddle through, though, despite an utterly silent god whose real-world rule enforcement sucks pretty badly. Punishments, even eternal ones, have no deterent effect unless they are clearly visible. Your god is a vacant god, and the returned mail is stacking up.
Ironically, the evening news is reporting that the murder rate is at a 30-year low.
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Coming from somone who stated, "I’d rather roast in hell than surrender my logical mind", it's odd that you would be so quick to surrender your ability to think something contrary to what God wants or your ability to choose what you do and don't want to do or would you exempt yourself from such restrictions?
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Hey, if I can keep my logical mind, yet lose the ability to kill children - hell, yes, SIGN ME UP. That is a great trade - I could love god yet still be logical and question the bible. Better that than buy into the child-killing, logic-killing requirements of xianity, any day, any year, any universe.
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As an adult who was an abused child, I can tell you that I place the responsibility and the blame for what was done to me squarely on the person who did it. Noone forced them to do what they did to me; it was their choice...
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...and if god exists, wasn't it also god's choice to stand idly by and tolerate what was done to you? If it were me, and I believed in that beasty and met him in the afterlife, I would grab his beard, pull him off his blood-stained throne, and teach him the importance of designing a world where even your free-will child abuse resulted in dire, painful, and immediate countermeasures (for making the BAD choice with his/her free-will).
Wow - I've improved things TWO ways, now - curtailing both child killing and child abuse, while preserving logical thought. This is getting good! MORE! MORE!