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If your deity asked you to kill your child, would you do it?

If your deity asked you to kill your child would you do it?

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 16.7%
  • No

    Votes: 26 54.2%
  • I do not believe in a deity.

    Votes: 14 29.2%

  • Total voters
    48

Terese

Mangalam Pundarikakshah
Staff member
Premium Member
Narayana would do no such thing to me. i vote no.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
I really wanted to vote <no>, but option #3 seems more in the spirit of your poll.
If I had a deity, I wouldn't obey an order to kill a child.
Same here.

Deities are expected to behave.

Well, not behave necessarily. But to have some modicum of common sense and ability to be reasonable, at least.

Such an unworthy deity is just that - unworthy.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Same here.
Deities are expected to behave.
Well, not behave necessarily. But to have some modicum of common sense and ability to be reasonable, at least.
Such an unworthy deity is just that - unworthy.
Even if the deity were worthy, if I received a command to kill a child, I'd first ask myself....
"Am I hearing this right?"
"Am I insane, & hearing evil voices?"
"I'd prefer to risk eternal damnation in the Lake Of Fire than trust that it's really a deity telling me to do something so evil."
 

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
In the end, we are always moral agents. Even if we act according to the commands of a deity, we are in some sense asserting our own moral beliefs -- such as the belief that we should obey the commands of a deity.
 

Corthos

Great Old One
Ahura Mazda isn't that kind of God. He doesn't seek people out like Yahweh, and he wouldn't command death for anyone.

That said, -IF HE DID- (and went against everything I know about him in the Gathas), I absolutely would not do as he commanded. Such Gods are petty, and aren't worthy of anyone's time...
 

Mindmaster

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
Eh, what's a little blood between a man and his god?

Toss a baby over a fire pit and apparently you are giving them to Molech so you might as well seal the deal, right? :D
 

Taylor Seraphim

Angel of Reason
Thankfully I won't be having children, but if I did, I'd have no choice but to do so. My loyalty to the gods trumps everything.

So if you would follow the gods even if they asked you to do that, does that mean that you worship the gods just because they are more powerful than you?
 
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