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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: The Bible As A Rorschach
- Message-ID: <1i5ng8INN6af@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 03:45:12 GMT
- References: <1i2vphINNcq0@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1993Jan02.125156.24758@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
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- In article <1993Jan02.125156.24758@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>, mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus) writes:
- |> Jon Livesey (livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com) wrote:
- |> : In article <1993Jan01.192802.2370@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>, mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mi
- |> ke A. McAngus) writes:
- |> : |> Jon Livesey (livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com) wrote:
- |> : |> : In article <1992Dec31.020043.25959@arden.linet.org>, joeb@arden.linet.or
- |> g (Jo
- |> : |> e Beiter) writes:
- |> : |> : >
- |> : |> : > Hitler had no right to do what he did. Hitler is not God.
- |> : |> :
- |> : |> : I'd hate to misunderstand you here. Is Hitler not
- |> : |> : being God the *reason* why he had no right to do what
- |> : |> : he did?
- |> : |> :
- |> : |> : Would God have the right to do what Hitler did?
- |> : |> :
- |> : |> : jon.
- |> : |>
- |> : |> Of course god would have the right to do what Hitler did, because god is
- |> : |> omnijust and omnibenevolent and therefore if god did it it would be right.
- |> :
- |> : Of course! It's all so simple when you look at it the right
- |> : way, isn't it?
- |> :
- |> : So now I'm wondering about people who represent God, or who are
- |> : inspired by him. What do they get the right to do, I wonder.
- |>
- |> Why they have the right to bring gods "justice" to the rest of us, silly. (^:
- |> (I have to stand on my head to continue this "logic")
-
- So I guess that brings us full circle back to Hitler. Just what
- did Hitler have the right to do, claiming as he did to be carrying
- out the Lord's work?
-
- jon.
-