From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 11:03:03 MST
--- Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> I hate to be the god's advocate, but this only makes
> sense as a moral
> position if earthly life is All There Is, which by
> biblical hypothesis is
> exactly *not* the case.
I wonder...is this, itself, a meme we should attack?
It certainly sound like "care not for what happens on
this Earth, save as it will affect you in the
afterlife" has been used to justify far more
short-sighted thinking (with often harmful long-term
effects) than long over the years.
> Oddly enough, Abraham wasn't *entirely* convinced of
> this point of view,
> although he was prepared to go along with it. And
> oddly enough, the god in
> question apparently thought well enough of continued
> physical existence
> that it allowed the kid to survive once the test of
> obedience was concluded
> to its satisfaction.
"How do I know that Heaven and Hell are a lie? Why do
men weep at funerals? The truth is in all human
hearts, but most people reject it and cloud their own
judgement rather than face it, for they have been
taught by powerful men that those who confront this
truth will inevitably become evil. Those powerful men
speak a kind of truth - for they know that their own
power corrupts, and leads them to selfishly deny their
fellow man a chance at this same power."
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