Last night, I decided to amuse myself by getting into a religious flame war.
I figure, why don’t those people directly and honestly pray for Yhwh to annihilate them entirely so that there’s no danger of their imperfect will doing imperfect deeds?
The main group being bashed upon was, of course, the Christians.
One participant inparticular was saying that all humans are sinners and that your only hope of avoiding Hell (and thus going to Heaven as there are only two alternitives…) is through salvations in the J man.
When confronted with “Well what about young children who don’t know the J man?” he responded by saying that the bible endorses an “age of acountability” so that children who do not yet know good from evil will go to Heaven.
I then argued that the Christian thing to do then is to sacrifice yourself to the pits of Hell for the sake of the children.
“WHAT?” was the reply.
So I argued: If a child dies before they learn of good and evil they go to Heaven for all of eternity right? So kill them all before they get there and save them from the pain of life and the possibility of going to Hell.
Unfortunately, my remark was taken seriously and not as a demonstration of how absurd his reasoning was.
He is now praying for my soul.
But is my analysis off base?
I had a good chuckle when the night was through…
{visualizing confused and uncertain xtians slaughtering all their kids: “Are you sure this is theologically sound?”}