Post by dietspam16 on May 9, 2007 16:50:06 GMT -5
This is not meant to be offensive or aggressive. the below questions arise from a serious lack of understanding.
I have never understood the Christian perspective on human involvement in death.
This first came up for me when we read "all quiet on the western front" in english in tenth grade. The scene where the horces have been hit with shrapnel and their intestines are falling out and they're actually tripping on their intestines. The soldiers shoot the horses to put them out of their misery.
When we discussed this scene in class, the conservative, christian members of the class objected strongly because the men were putting the horses' lives into their own hands. The liberal members supported it because the horses were going to die anyway and were in obvious agony.
I, of course, hold the belief that the men were doing the only possible just and moral thing by shooting them.
1. The horses were going to die anyway. Intestinal wounds are some of the most painful and horrible and slow ways to die. Ergo the men weren't changing anything by killing them, simply saving them pain.
2. My second point varies depending on your specific religious views. If your predeterministic, then you can't argue that you're doing what only god can do, because it has already been decided. Everything that has or will happen has been predecided by God, the only right thing you can do is act as you see fit. Life and death are Gods prerogative, but they come through your hands. You wouldn't not have sex with your wife in case you impregnate her by the same reasoning that only God can create life.
3. If you aren't predeterministic, that is your actions are your own and you're responsible for them, then it is up to God to judge you when you have died and come before him not before. What you do on earth, including life and death, are you're own responsibility, and ergo you should try to do the best you can for everyone around you. ie you should shoot the horses in order to help them not suffer.
Again, these are my interpretations on arguements I've heard.
Personally I believe in Abortion, Assisted suicide, and shooting those horses because you are saving people pain and suffering.
BUT I do condemn people for shooting race horses with broken legs, because those messages could survive and I condemn the aforementioned the armies for having horses in a warplace in the firstplace.
Comments? Alexie?
I have never understood the Christian perspective on human involvement in death.
This first came up for me when we read "all quiet on the western front" in english in tenth grade. The scene where the horces have been hit with shrapnel and their intestines are falling out and they're actually tripping on their intestines. The soldiers shoot the horses to put them out of their misery.
When we discussed this scene in class, the conservative, christian members of the class objected strongly because the men were putting the horses' lives into their own hands. The liberal members supported it because the horses were going to die anyway and were in obvious agony.
I, of course, hold the belief that the men were doing the only possible just and moral thing by shooting them.
1. The horses were going to die anyway. Intestinal wounds are some of the most painful and horrible and slow ways to die. Ergo the men weren't changing anything by killing them, simply saving them pain.
2. My second point varies depending on your specific religious views. If your predeterministic, then you can't argue that you're doing what only god can do, because it has already been decided. Everything that has or will happen has been predecided by God, the only right thing you can do is act as you see fit. Life and death are Gods prerogative, but they come through your hands. You wouldn't not have sex with your wife in case you impregnate her by the same reasoning that only God can create life.
3. If you aren't predeterministic, that is your actions are your own and you're responsible for them, then it is up to God to judge you when you have died and come before him not before. What you do on earth, including life and death, are you're own responsibility, and ergo you should try to do the best you can for everyone around you. ie you should shoot the horses in order to help them not suffer.
Again, these are my interpretations on arguements I've heard.
Personally I believe in Abortion, Assisted suicide, and shooting those horses because you are saving people pain and suffering.
BUT I do condemn people for shooting race horses with broken legs, because those messages could survive and I condemn the aforementioned the armies for having horses in a warplace in the firstplace.
Comments? Alexie?