tomspug
Absorbant
Is death really a bad thing? If someone dies in a tragic accident, it's really ourselves we mourn for, isn't it? I'd say that death is really more inconvenient than tragic. We want life to be a certain way, and death makes it not that way.
But of course, I think there is certainly something wrong with murder. Again, murder doesn't affect the victim, because they are dead, so it's no big deal to them. But murder is an act against those that are affected by the death. For example, what made Martin Luther King Jr.'s death horrible was the loss of him no longer being able to contribute to society. There would be no more speeches or messages or sermons or actions done by him specifically.
So maybe people could say that death itself is a bad thing because death shouldn't exist. But that would imply that existence itself is a bad thing, that it should be different. And if you believe in God, then maybe you would say that death is God's fault. That would make God a murderer of everyone, which wouldn't put him in much of a position to say "thou shalt not kill".
So, logically, if God is immoral and a murderer, than maybe his laws against things like murder are irrelevant. Maybe murder isn't bad.
But if God is good and death ISN'T his fault, whose is it? Because it's either his fault or it isn't. The only option is that death itself is not bad for existing, merely a natural process just like everything else. If one will continue to attest that it is bad that death exists, then perhaps their was a CAUSE for death's existence that was bad?
Remember, we can't say that God was the cause unless we are willing to reject conventional morality. Because why would a murdering God try to convince us that murder was bad?
But of course, I think there is certainly something wrong with murder. Again, murder doesn't affect the victim, because they are dead, so it's no big deal to them. But murder is an act against those that are affected by the death. For example, what made Martin Luther King Jr.'s death horrible was the loss of him no longer being able to contribute to society. There would be no more speeches or messages or sermons or actions done by him specifically.
So maybe people could say that death itself is a bad thing because death shouldn't exist. But that would imply that existence itself is a bad thing, that it should be different. And if you believe in God, then maybe you would say that death is God's fault. That would make God a murderer of everyone, which wouldn't put him in much of a position to say "thou shalt not kill".
So, logically, if God is immoral and a murderer, than maybe his laws against things like murder are irrelevant. Maybe murder isn't bad.
But if God is good and death ISN'T his fault, whose is it? Because it's either his fault or it isn't. The only option is that death itself is not bad for existing, merely a natural process just like everything else. If one will continue to attest that it is bad that death exists, then perhaps their was a CAUSE for death's existence that was bad?
Remember, we can't say that God was the cause unless we are willing to reject conventional morality. Because why would a murdering God try to convince us that murder was bad?