I grew up believing that unborn babies and kids not old enough to understand the gospel would automatically go to heaven when they die.... Buuuut according to that logic, wouldn't abortion to them be more favorable, sparing them the possibility of one day rejecting the gospel and be damned to hell?? It's sounds like a mercy killing to me.
Yes, but talking about Christianism, you are forgetting one thing.
You should share and aid people with anything, but you should never negotiate your salvation or your connection to god.
So yes, by saving the baby or even killing christens you would be making them a favor BUT you are screwing yourself yourself in the process because god should be over your friends family or offspring.
Hmm...food for thought.
Didn't Andrea Yates have something akin to this line of thinking when she drowned her 5 kids? In her severe mental instability, she came to believe her children were influenced by Satan and she couldn't save them except to kill them.
I'm more inclined to agree with Mofo1953 on tnis issue.
Oh, yeah. Now I remember.
Post partum depression is real RELIGION CAUSES ALL KIND OF VIOLENCE
Andrea Yates drowned her five kids in the bathtub, apparently believing they would all go to heaven. (Apparently she was told by medical professionals not to have any more children as her post-partum depression/psychosis would return. They apparently ignored this, having more children, stopping her meds, and finally drowning her children.)
Ah, ok. Thanks for clarifying this.
that was the same logic the catholic church used to slaughter millions all over the world, weirdly enough
This logic you are using is antinatalist in nature. I am not accusing you of being antinatalist, but the logic of your question embodies antinatalism.
Proponents of this philosophy believe that is morally wrong to procreate. The reasoning relies on the belief that the inherent suffering of life(Hell) far outweighs the positive aspect of life (Heaven) so much that it is ethically wrong to want to continue propagating life.
They take Heaven and Hell, put them on earth and ask, "Don't you think it is better to spare these kids from existence knowing what you know?
This is the thinking of that woman that drowned her kids in a bathtub.
Any form of negative utilitarianism is highly questionable and not something I think should be supported. If the only goal is to minimize suffering, then genocide and antinatalism is automatically justified and in fact necessary, even if you have to cause suffering to accomplish this goal.
A questionable debate stratagem.
Also:
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What a good read! Thanks for sharing this!
Yes, it would. The flaw there it doesn’t allow for the Catholic Church to outnumber all the others on the planet. Stealth by numbers.
Strategy currently being employed more effectively by Islam.
@PBuck0145 Yes, the Catholics missed the boat after Vatican 2!