If God instructed you to murder your child to prove your devotion to him, would you?

**Honey** · August 13th, 2008, 10:32 PM

If God instructed you to murder your child to prove your devotion to him, would you? - Yahoo! Answers

WTF is wrong with these fundies?

They are MENTAL

**Hummus** · August 13th, 2008, 10:46 PM

What the hell! Some people said YES!

The question really is do you place more value on your god than your love for your child?

**McJag** · August 14th, 2008, 01:15 AM

I'd have to have that in writing...

**kingcap72** · August 14th, 2008, 02:37 AM

Religion is a dangerous thing when you let it cloud your common sense.

**Sarzy** · August 14th, 2008, 03:39 AM

Religion is scary to say the least.

**twitchy** · August 14th, 2008, 08:59 AM

Just add mental illness to the mix and you have one of those tragic news stories where the parent swears "God told me".

**LynnieD** · August 14th, 2008, 08:59 AM

Depends on how pissed off I was at the kid....

**crumpet** · August 15th, 2008, 09:31 AM

That request would be my first clue that this 'god' isn't something to look up to.

**BoogsBun** · August 15th, 2008, 09:49 AM

Nope..I would plead the 10 commandments. One of them is "thou shall not kill", and if god was like "kill you kid", I would decline. I don't have much faith for a person who breaks their own damn rule.

**Chilly Willy** · August 15th, 2008, 11:09 AM

When I was a kid, there were two stories in the bible that turned me off Christianity forever.

1. How God drowned the Egyptian army in the Red Sea, because "he made the pharao stubborn" so that he wouldn't let the Jews go.

2. How Abraham got ready to kill his son, just because God told him to and the God went "PSYCH".

Even as a six-year-old it was perfectly clear to me that I didn't want to have anything to do with that bullshit.

**Just Kill Me** · August 15th, 2008, 11:29 AM

The whole Abraham thing?

Fuck that; it's all bullshit.

**katerpillar** · August 17th, 2008, 07:04 AM

If God "instructed" me to do anything, be it kill my offspring or lead the French army, I'd be asking my doctor for some anti-psychotic meds quick smart.

And I say that as someone who believes in God, too. Just not so much in hearing voices.

**MrsDark** · August 19th, 2008, 04:32 PM

**KandyKorn** · August 19th, 2008, 04:36 PM

I don't do anything anybody tells me to do

He'd have to ask me nicely

Seriously, no, I would not kill my child for anybody.

**Penny Lane** · August 26th, 2008, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by Chilly Willy

When I was a kid, there were two stories in the bible that turned me off Christianity forever.

1. How God drowned the Egyptian army in the Red Sea, because "he made the pharao stubborn" so that he wouldn't let the Jews go.

2. How Abraham got ready to kill his son, just because God told him to and the God went "PSYCH".

Even as a six-year-old it was perfectly clear to me that I didn't want to have anything to do with that bullshit.

I hated those stories too... also the one with Joseph and his bastard brothers and those lions..

If God told me to kill my child to prove my devotion to him, I'd first ask myself, "Why the fuck am I hearing voices telling me to kill my kid?"