#602 | Imagine a loving dad correcting a child who has lied with a light spanking. Now imagine a dad who continuously tortures his child for a single lie for a decade, claiming 1) he is completely justified in doing so, and 2) he is deeply loving. Which type of dad does the Christian God most approximate?
#388 | How important should Christians deem rationality since 1) it isn’t defined, outlined or explicated anywhere in the Bible, 2) it is not taught to children before belief is encouraged, and 3) salvific belief is binary (John 3:18), irrationally absent a mention of degree?
#355 | Isn’t spanking your disobedient child hard for a mere hour or so actually an act of mercy since the offense is worth eternal torment in the eyes of God? It is impossible for parents to go ‘too far’ when disciplining a child, right?
#349 | What can the biblical attribution of righteousness to Lot ever mean given his actions? Can we not then also call Trump as righteous given he has only molested women and not offered his daughters to be raped nor impregnated his daughters while drunk as did Lot?
#343 | To the degree that one accepts the rationale behind Pascal’s Wager, is it not irrational for loving Christians to have children? Are not the risks of having a child who would reject Christ and burn in Hell for eternity too great to risk having children?
#340 | Considering the millions of children who believe in Santa on flimsy evidence, how much training in critical thinking and rationality should children have before they are given religious options? Or is it not important to God that our belief be rational?
#327 | Does the misalignment between 1) arguments apologists give to believe and 2) the actual reasons Christians believe indicate a intrinsic pathology within Christian ideology? Are kids warned to believe in line with the evidence, or is irrationality winked at?
#162 | When a young child beyond the age of innocence chooses Hell by lying to her mother, of what sort are the Hell-deserving and Hell-choosing thoughts going through her little mind?
#161 | Why will Christians in Heaven who have lost a young child to eternity in Hell due to the child’s sin and disbelief not mourn for that child? 1) All memories of that child will be deleted. 2) The parent will feel the same wrath that God feels towards the sinful child.
#157 | When choosing a depiction of evil acts deserving of severe punishment, Christians often invoked something similar to poking the eyeballs out of someone’s head… Instead of the lie of a little child that is allegedly deserving of eternal damnation. Why is this done?
#156 | While there is no “problem of evil” impinging upon an unloving God walking by a child dying in torment, is there any reason an actual “loving” God would walk by the suffering child he claims to love when every loving human would stop to help?
#120 | According to the Bible, 1) at what time in history (if any) did it cease become immoral for the Jews not to kill gays and rebellious children, and 2) at what time in history (if any) did it become immoral for Jews to kill gays and rebellious children?
#110 | Is it proper to lead children to Jesus if you feel they would, as do Muslim and Hindu children, surrender themselves to any God their parents or adults encouraged them to?
#105 | Greg stated that someone saving a born child rather than 1,000 unborn children (zygotes) during a fire is acting emotionally in opposition to the moral calculus. But he oddly stops there. What is the moral calculus in this case?
#101 | Christians often encourage conversion with the analogy of God as a loving father. Why then do Christians abandon that analogy when asked to address the extreme wrath of God over a single offense? Would you ever call a father who eternally tortured a lying child loving?
#097 | If one of the many kids in a mixed-religion culture honestly assessed, based on the available evidence, the odds for Gods A, B and no God (C) to be 30%, 45% and 25% respectively, why must that child then abandon those odds and worship as true the “odds-on favorite” (B)?
#093 | If an alleged “loving“ father deemed his lying son worthy of lifelong torment in the basement, but then acted “merciful“ by torturing his favorite son instead, could we not say that father was emotionally disturbed, and clearly not loving nor merciful?
#084 | We immediately and unequivocally deem a liar the neighbor claiming to love all children, then has his own kids hack our children into pieces. Why lower those quite legitimate critical standards when assessing alleged Gods who have done that very thing?
#076 | You see a neighbor torturing his young children, and you reasonably conclude he is unloving. In the Christian mindset, is there any possible event in life that could ever falsify or even lend disconfirming evidence to the notions that ‘God is real‘ or ‘God is loving‘?
#063 | When cookie-jar Susie lies, we might only spank her severely. But the reason God must eternally torment Susie for that lie is that God is in a much higher position of authority, right? Is this the Christian explanation for the severity and extent of Susie’s damnation?
#053 | A girl with 1 parent Muslim and the other Christian honestly feels the evidence to which she has been exposed warrants a 40% degree of certainty each is true, with 20% certainty both are false. Is a leap of faith to near 100% certainty in Christ epistemologically honest here?
#051 | Our human notion of justice in which punishment for an offense is finite is evidently misguided in light of the eternal torment deemed proper by the Most Righteous Judge. How can we learn to feel as satisfied as God does about our kids/friends eternally burning in Hell?
#050 | What is the principle of justice that grounds the punishment (not just consequences) of those who did not commit the offense being punished? E.g., “…punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation…” & Matt 23:35 (blood-guilt).
#049 | I’ve heard God becomes more angry at and must exact greater punishment of a lying child than the parents because of his hierarchical predominance. If I were President, and a young girl lied to me, why must I more severely punish her? What would ground my more severe wrath?
#048 | Even very sadistic parents relent after burning the lying child with cigarette butts for a few weeks. Why is God’s anger against the lie not appeased after a few epochs of horrific pain if that child dies from the parents’ punishment? Are there rules of just punishment? What are they?
#040 | Is it not a sin for those of us with the Spirit of God to resist wrathfully deeming our lying child worthy of eternal torment? Are not parents who chuckle at the chocolate-smudged face of a cookie-thieving child themselves sinning and clearly worthy of eternal torment for this?
#031 | As loving, altruistic fathers, we punish our children to teach them, and never to retaliate against them for breaking our rules. Why would the biblical God become so wrathful (John 3:18) that he eternally and without rehabilitation punishes those he claims to love?
#021 | Is it deceitful for adults to tell children that intuition is a proper epistemological device in assessing whether the earth is flat, that the burning in the bosom is a God or that life required a creative mind when those same adults know intuition frequently fails?
#005 | Stoning a disobedient child is very consistent with the justice of the Christian God who himself deems that child worthy of eternal torment. Why do modern Christians, who presumably have the mind of God, merely laugh at the lies of the chocolate-smudged, cookie-stealing child instead of applying a punishment more representative of God’s disposition?
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