Hi Jeanie

Don’t get me wrong, I was a chrstian for some time and I understand what it is that christians believe as much as most typical christians do at least. When I ask these questions I’m trying to get you to look at your beliefs from a different angle. God created the system in its every detail according to the bible. Under that system the humans he created fell exactly as he knew that they would. He’s claimed to be all knowing so he must have known this. They have since fallen into disfavour with him a number of times and been destroyed by him. It appears self evidence that killing everyone, man, woman, child, infant, foetus is a bad thing given that many of them are not old enough to have committed any sins yet god chooses this way of going about things. Not just once or twice either but time and again killing is his chosen method of achieving his ends. Then we get to the jesus story. We can only be saved if we kill his son. Would you hold any father that demanded that of you in high regard?

Really?

Think hard about that one point. God created the rules under which our only path to heaven involves his own son being painfully put to death.

Is that a moral way to behave?

Now given that god is all powerful and all knowing (according to the bible) why would he not just create the perfect world he is heading towards in the first place rather than go through all of this suffering and killing in the interim on the way there. It must be in his power if he is all powerful and he must know enough to be able to get there in one step without the killing and suffering inherent in this approach or he is not all knowing. I can’t even begin to comment on the idea that a father would require that his son be killed before he could accept those who murdered him. That one goes beyond all reason to even consider and how any one could consider such a being not just moral but the epitome of morality is something I will never understand.

In reason

Russell