Hi everyone.
I wanted to share a short clip with you where the question of eternal justice is asked.
How do we cope in a world when there's no eternal justice?
A world where child rapists can get away with what they do without any punishment?
How can we make sense of this and find peace in such a world?
This is a common reason why people want to believe in religion.
And here's Matt Dillahunty answering this question:
The kind of world you want to live in has no bearing on the world you do live in.
If this is your principal objection to world views that don't include some cosmic justice
in them, if you'll forgive the condescending remark, you really don't know what you're
talking about.
Life isn't fair, and the desire for justice that you express is one of the key foundations
of most every religion.
We're all aware that sometimes good goes unrewarded and evil goes unpunished, and so
some justice seekers invent a security blanket to ensure that they aren't mired in depression.
It allows them to face the harshness of an indifferent reality, whether it's Heaven
and Hell or Karma dictating infinite rebirths it serves the same purpose.
Some of us prefer to actually face reality.
Some of us realize that there's no good reason to believe that the universe is anything
but indifferent to our existence and our perceptions of good and evil.
Some of us realize that dealing with reality on reality's terms is the only way to make
any real improvements in the situation.
Life isn't fair, and that's actually comforting if you think about it.
If life were fair that would imply that you actually deserve the bad things that happen
to you, and those that benefit from evil deeds are similarly deserving.
The realization that there's no reason to expect justice is what ensures that we take
steps to impose justice.
The realization that good isn't always rewarded is what drives us to reward it when we see
it.
The realization that evil isn't always punished is what drives us to work together as a cooperative
society to deal with our problems collectively and individually in a way that encourages
real change and that hopefully minimizes harmful actions.
Realizing that justice isn't guaranteed allows us to appreciate when it happens and
work toward ensuring it on a more regular basis.
Your particular God concept/view of justice represents the height of irresponsibility
and injustice.
Your chosen religion has us born as reprobates, guilty before we've even taken a single
breath.
Responsible for things we've never done.
It offers instant undeserved forgiveness for the most horrible of crimes and punishes people
whose only crime is disbelief.
Forever.
It advocates slavery, denigrates women, curses homosexuals, orders the stoning of unruly
children, sanctioning wars of extermination, condones human sacrifices, and poisons every
mind it touches.
It includes only one unforgivable crime, disbelief.
Is that just?
This justice you so admire is no such thing.
It's divine edict, it's arbitrary, capricious and ultimately unjust and immoral.
Yes I realize that there are pedophiles out there who've escaped our flawed justice
system.
Do you realize that your system says that they're all eligible for an eternal paradise?
How does that address your objection?
Under the rules of Christianity the pedophile escapes the rule of justice here can also
escape your ultimate justice.
Under the rules of Christianity he may live forever in paradise while someone who spent
their entire life doing good, helping others, and contributing in a generally positive way
to the one and only life we're sure to get ultimately is judged unworthy of that reward.
Don't kid yourself.
You haven't accepted a cosmic sense of justice that alleviates the problem.
You've accepted one that alleviates the problem for you.
It is a selfish justification that shows no regard for real matters of justice.
It is the height of arrogance and your desire to feel special because somebody up there
thinks you're special.
Well according to the paradigm you advocate he thinks anyone willing to worship him is
special with no regard to justice or character.
Go, read Romans.
No one makes this point clearer than Paul.
The law was established with full knowledge that no one would be able to fulfill it.
It was established to demonstrate this inability and damn us further, and then a loophole was
established to let some people through regardless of their standing with the law.
Your religion has made you a slave.
It has made you uncaring.
It has made you support immorality and injustice while claiming that arbitrary edicts and loopholes
count as either.
It is a reprehensible lie that poisons the mind and prevents you from understanding reality.
When the scales drop away from your eyes, as they have for many of us, we'll be here,
and you'll realize that you're not alone and not to blame.
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