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To: reasonisfaith
I can’t conceive of rejection of God as anything but a wrongful act of the highest severity.

Right, but most reasonable people would see a paradox between the pedophile priest going the heaven and the molested child going to hell.

But you seem to think that:

* Using your 'God-given' brain to make a serious attempt to understand the nature of the world, and after many years of reading, soul-searching, and honest deliberation, coming to the conclusion that there's no basis for theism.

AND

* Molesting a child.

Are both "wrongful acts" of the same severity.

I have no problem calling this equivocation wicked and wrong, although you are quite free to hold such beliefs.

313 posted on 02/08/2014 7:27:28 AM PST by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner

I think the important distinction to make here is between God’s moral law and man’s moral standards. It seems clear that your lens is made of the latter.

Child molesting can only happen in the context of a rejection of God. Given this perspective, the two sins are not separate from each other.


319 posted on 02/08/2014 9:55:13 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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