Posted by:
commongentile
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Date: November 17, 2019 06:21PM
caffiend Wrote:
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> CrispingPin Wrote:
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> > Any being that would send its own children to
> > eternal reward or eternal punishment based on
> > finite actions (or inactions) isn’t a god,
> > it’s a hideous, evil monster.
>
> This thought was probably --once-- a comforting
> rationalization to many H*tlers, St*lins, Ted
> B+ndys, and any number of thugs, goons, and
> creeps. "This is all there is, all there ever was,
> and all there will ever be. So why not get what I
> can, however I can, as long as the getting is
> good?"
>
> Morality is, after all, only a human construct.
The following is from Flannery O'Connor's story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find." An escaped convict called "The Misfit" is talking to a character called "the grandmother," right before he murders her:
"Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He thrown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but thow away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can-by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.
"Maybe He didn't raise the dead," the old lady mumbled, not knowing what she was saying and feeling so dizzy that she sank down in the ditch with her legs twisted under her.
"I wasn't there so I can't say He didn't," The Misfit said. "I wisht I had of been there," he said, hitting the ground with his fist. "It ain't right I wasn't there because if I had of been there I would of known. Listen lady," he said in a high voice, "if I had of been there I would of known and I wouldn't be like I am now."