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Ilíon8-Feb-08 1:21
Ilíon8-Feb-08 1:21 
I thought I'd grabbed the PermaLink, obviously not.

Ah, I was grabbing the URL from the message header. Here's the PermaLink: Message Automatically Removed[^]

What I'm talking about is messages vanishing because certain person(s) (singular, plural -- I don't know, nor do I particularly want to know) don't like what I say.


Look, if these 'atheists' at CP want to make obtuse criticisms against "theism," they really don't have moral right or standing to throw temper-tantrums if I choose to try to explore (to the extent that one can explore anything important in the context of the SoapBox) their criticism.

Here is the exact content of the message -- other than the painful fact that directly pasting '<' and '>' into messages no longer works:


Justice -- 'Atheist' Style

Is it really true that:
<blockquote><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=2605&amp;df=90&amp;mpp=25&amp;noise=3&amp;sort=Position&amp;view=Quick&amp;select=2416276&amp;fr=1#xx2416276xx">(in isolation)</a>[<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=2605&amp;df=90&amp;mpp=25&amp;noise=3&amp;sort=Position&amp;view=Quick&amp;select=2416276&amp;fr=1#xx2416276xx" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]:
It is certainly more just to simply forgive ... </blockquote>
As a stand-alone claim, this is worse than ludicrous, for it asserts that the negation of justice is "more just" than justice. And, with most ideas that one might want to add to it, the compound claim so generated is still ludicrous.

Nevertheless, that is the sort of "justice" that you folk are demanding (when it benefits you, of course) as the only justice you will deign to accept from God. Happily, God *is* Justice, so such pseudo-justice isn't on offer.


This is the post in full from which the above came:
<blockquote><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=2605&amp;df=90&amp;mpp=25&amp;noise=3&amp;sort=Position&amp;view=Quick&amp;select=2416276&amp;fr=1#xx2416276xx">John Carson</a>[<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=2605&amp;df=90&amp;mpp=25&amp;noise=3&amp;sort=Position&amp;view=Quick&amp;select=2416276&amp;fr=1#xx2416276xx" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]:
<b>MrPlankton:</b> But would God be just if rebellion/sin were just forgiven with out consequence?
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<b>John Carson:</b> It is certainly more just to simply forgive than it is to punish the innocent in place of the guilty (assuming, for the sake of argument, that Jesus was innocent). Punishing the innocent, for whatever reason, is the opposite of justice.

The whole idea is just plain stupid and uncivilised. It is that way because the whole story is merely an invention of unjust and uncivilised human beings --- the same sort of people who in other cultures invented gods who required the sacrifice of virgins. </blockquote>
Even Mr Carson's full statement ("<i>It is certainly more just to simply forgive than it is to punish the innocent in place of the guilty ...</i>") isn't *really* correct; for there are no degrees to justice and injustice; justice is absolute.

Mr Carson is asserting that it is "more just" (which is logically impossible) to commit mercy (except that it's a most unjust sort of mercy his statement implies) upon the guily than to commit injustice upon the innocent. Well yes, it is, _definitially_, unjust to commit injustice upon the innocent ... regardless of how the guilty are dealt.

But refraining from committing injustice upon the innocent doesn't address how to deal with the guilty. The question is (and this is what MrPlankton was trying to get at): "<i>How is God to deal with the *guilty?*</i>" To ask the question is to answer it: <i>justly</i>. Anything other that justice is injustice.

"<i>Punishing the innocent, for whatever reason, is the opposite of justice.</i>"
As fate would have it, in a savage blow to Mr Carson's atheology, it turns out that he's barking up the wrong tree: Christ wasn't *merely punished,* as though he were the whipping-boy for some royal brat. Rather, he willingly took our sins into his own person ... he willingly *became* our sins. For all who humble their pride and admit that they are sinners, he took their sins into Hell/Death and left them there.


Amusingly enough, as it was Christ himself who created us (and our Cosmos), one more of the silly 'atheistic' attempted taunts was met long before they even thought to utter it [the one that goes something like this: "<i>whoever is responsible for this mess has some explaining (to me) to do</i>"].

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GeneralA Text rephrase might be needed Pin
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GeneralThere seems to be a problem with 'Email' link Pin
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar5-Feb-08 21:10
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