What if God told you to kill the president?
 

Let's say you are praying to god one night and he communicates to you that you must kill the president. What's your line and why? Assume that you believe in god and are basically a good member of your religion.

edit: also, who the president is and what you think of him doesn't matter for this question IMO. I hate Bush, but that doesn't matter in my decision.

edit: FWIW, I would probably obey god or just stop believing in him altogether.

Re: What if God told you to kill the president?
 

I dont think I would ever do a bad thing on the grounds that god told me to. In my opinion, it is more likely that I am imagining things than that a good god would want me to do a bad thing. Therefore I should refrain.

Re: What if God told you to kill the president?
 

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In my opinion, it is more likely that I am imagining things than that a good god would want me to do a bad thing.

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Ok, but who says that killing the president is bad? God? No. He just told you to kill the president. He thinks it's a great idea!

Re: What if God told you to kill the president?
 

God doesn't exist.

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God doesn't exist.

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Bad move. There goes your insanity plea.

Re: What if God told you to kill the president?
 

easy, check myself into a mental institution.

Re: What if God told you to kill the president?
 

I would go on a spiritual journey to find out why god told me to kill the president. And my spiritual journey, I mean I would go to taco bell.

Re: What if God told you to kill the president?
 

Interesting question! It should sort out the wheat from the shaft, those whose "relationship" with god is only pretence and therefore are not dangerous to society, "talkers" rather than "doers", and the the others, who are better of being subjected to very regular mental health checks and kept under observation.

Lets not forget the Abraham tale. Some may hope that god is just testing them and in his widom will somehow freeze the trigger at the appropriate moment.


I have said numerous times on other posts, this is the danger of faith and why it should be curtailed and why it is a form of evil prejudicial to society and humanity wellbeing.

No one should ever surrender their reason to the irrational.

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In my opinion, it is more likely that I am imagining things than that a good god would want me to do a bad thing.

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Ok, but who says that killing the president is bad? God? No. He just told you to kill the president. He thinks it's a great idea!

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I would be doubting god was the source of the message, hence it would not be true that god thought it was good - it would seem to me that I had lost my mind and that god (and anyone else) would think it a bad idea.

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I would go on a spiritual journey to find out why god told me to kill the president. And my spiritual journey, I mean I would go to taco bell.


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Wow. I thought there was only one correct answer to this question. I was wrong.