Would you kill your own child if God ordered you to? - The Atheist Experience #653

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Zini from São Paulo, Brazil is worried about people who claim that they would kill their own child if God ordered them to do so.

Excerpt from The Atheist Experience TV Show #653 of April 18, 2010, with Matt Dillahunty and Jen Peeples. (Topic: News Items, YouTubers and the SBoE.)

This entire episode can be watched on Blip.tv and Ustream.tv:
http://www.blip.tv/file/3505415/
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/6283798


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  • God, if he exists, must surely be the enemy of humankind. Always ordering humans to kill other humans? If God wants someone dead, let him do it himself and stop recruiting humans to do his dirty work.

  • i can't believe people are defending this. "he only asked one person" etc. It goes to show how malleable the human mind is and how religion, is indeed, 'the opiate of the masses'.

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  • wow, I hope zini called toll-free. That call must have cost a fortune....his soul!!!!! Just kidding.

  • @TheDharmawheel

    No problem. ;)

  • @TheGroucho66 i like that interpretation too. I hadn't thought of that before but it does make perfect sense. Cheers : )

  • @TheDharmawheel

    Indeed. Although, as the great Christopher Hitchens postulated in 'God is not Great', Karl Marx's quote that religion is 'the opiate of the masses' is one of the most misrepresented statements of the 19th century. It's not that religion is this drug that turns people into brainless morons (although I would agree to an extent) but more it was humanity's way of dulling the pain of reality. "It is the spirit in a spiritless world". It was our first attempt at philosophy and health

  • If god is real and I meet him one day I'm punching that scumbag straight in the mouth.

  • @2ScoopsofChad That's like God saying, I dare you to kill your son, go on, DO IT! Oh shit, he really did it, sorry there Abe. To what end?

  • Killing in the name of god is an ethical matter, when morals can be watered down and changed to suit the beliefs or opinions of the group (e.g. Christianity). Morals always stay the same. Killing is always wrong - it doesn't take a book to tell you that, and it certainly would take more than a book to convince me otherwise.

  • If you're willing to kill your children for a god, you obviously didn't love them.

  • If god asked me to kill my son, I would tell god to "fuck off". I love my son much more than I love god.

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