is that an adequate response, QE?

I have to find the source material, but I have read that christian authorities used to forcibly baptise jewish children and then in some cases kill them, only about 500-600 years ago.

a)people have killed thier children to save them
b)I win
c) I’ll make a blog post to fully respond, comments are too cramped for walls of text.

gimme a couple hours, okay?

Soooo….I have a question, and I’m sure it will offend just about everyone!

If a christian parent really loved their children, I mean really, really, selflessly loved their children, wouldn’t they want their children to get into heaven? wouldn’t this become the number one priority over anything else?

Why do christian parents not get their children baptized, then murder them? would this not ensure that your children would go to heaven?

If I’m wrong about this, and the child must “accept jesus” first, then why do you not raise your children to that age, get them to fully accept jesus, then murder them so they have no more chance to sin and be cast into the fire and brimstone?

Granted, you would be damning yourself by commiting murder, but would god not forgive you because you are willingly sending yourself to hell, sacrificing yourself in parallel to his son, to ensure another gets into heaven? Isn’t this sacrifice to save another’s soul the most noble thing you could do as a christian? If it is immoral, if the christian commiting the murder was sinning, how would that sin rub off on the victim? They would not be to blame, they would be an innocent, and one faithful to jesus at that!

Why do christians not convert people and kill them? Why not, say, get the entire mass of an Amazon jungle tribe, or some African family tribes, get them all to accept jesus, then slaughter them? would this not assure the new convert’s acendance to heaven? Would this not save the deceased? would this not be more moral than trying to manage people’s faith, knowing that they could lose it and (Gasp! Horror!) become an atheist like me? Aren’t you christians supposed to be saving everyone you can? Don’t you have a moral imperitive from the bible to save others?

Are you christians just to scared to commit youselves to hell to save your own children? Are you too selfish? Or maybe…do you have a bit, just a little, mind you, of doubt?

Please, feel free to point out any and all flaws in my logic.

-Q

Sean, stop stealing my pageviews. I’ve gotten 100 in 3 days, so so are getting 2100% more views than me, give them back.

Drop me a comment here if you have the time.

It doesn’t have to be pulitzer prize winning material. I tried to display a variety of posts, a showcase of Atheist writing. You get analytical stuff, commentary, opinion, comedy etc. Surely you could write something about the Mormons?