Saturday, November 4, 2017

Kill The Infidel?

     No God, if he were God, would require others to kill the infidel. He would just go poof! and the infidel would be gone. You say he does it to determine who are going to earn passage to paradise and the seventy-two virgins? Rubbish! If God wants to find out who would go to battle for him and die for him, all he has to do is think of that person, and he can immediately see if that person would do that. If God is God, he is all-powerful and therefore omniscient. You don't have to prove or do anything for God. All he has to do is think of you, and he can see what you would do. God does not need man to do anything for him.
     The idea that you have to prove yourself or do something to earn something like seventy-two partly-human virgins would have to come from man. Man is not God, and man is not omnipotent. Man cannot think of you or look at you and know what you would do. He has to require you to show him, to do something for him. The requirement that you be or do something is a man-issued directive not God's directive. The requirement that you kill infidels to earn seventy-six virgins in paradise is a man-issued requirement, not God's. God doesn't need anything of man.
Peter "Nick" Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 1968