Thou shall not kill, while at work she explained to me that meant all creatures, she thought this was a test because right after meditation she walked into the kitchen and there was a cricket staring at her, she doused it with raid then stepped on it, she now wonders should she have killed it or just let it go.
2006-09-21 12:08:25 · 9 answers · asked by jujubeez3713 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's the problem with religion. Religious people are just so damn lazy morally. They can't think for themselves. At most, they just take the spoon-fed morality given to them and wonder how it applies to all the junk the fixed list morality can't cover. No fixed list morailty can cover everything.
Try thinking for yourself.
Then you'd realize there is nothing inherently evil in killing. There are good and bad reasons for killing and you might not agree with the reasons I have for doing so. Yes, even with killing, the morality is relative to the people doing the judging of the act.
Personally, I think it would be wrong to kill all of them, but it is not wrong to kill some for convenience in my house. If she thinks it is wrong to kill crickets, let her convince me of the reasoning behind her belief. And don't just default to "God says so", because no god wrote anything. That's just a cop-out to thinking for yourself.
2006-09-21 12:09:42 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crickets are according to the Jewish Law clean, and therefore it is permissible within the Jewish Law to eat crickets and grasshoppers. I don't advise the eating of a cricket except in a fix.
Don't use raid, it's poisonous. Rather scoop the living cricket in a bottle (I catch them with my hand) and throw it out.
A cockroach is not a cricket. A cockroach must die because they spread germs.
Kent Hovind of www.drdino.com said in his seminar that insects breathe through their skin and not through nostrils, therefore they're not alive in the same way as animals and humans. For that you would need a specific definition of what life is and what not. Kent Hovind's definition is Biblical, so if you need to know what it is that thou shalt not kill according to the Bible, then the Biblical definition of life is pertain-able.
Albert Schweitzer spent time pondering whether it was the right thing to do to build a hut (Lambarene) in the jungle, because of the ants that might be stepped upon while carrying the logs. He built his mission anyway.
2006-09-21 12:25:52 · answer #2 · answered by Dirk S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is not about creating or following a set of rules. The rule of not killing comes from the natural abhorance normal humans have for killing each other. Humans necessarily kill animals and plants to sustain their own lives. Reasonable people also try to be sane gardeners and guards of the wildlife on our planet, protecting the world from human abuse and excesses. It is not the rule but the source of the rule that must be respected as a social animal.
If you create and follow rules then you are just fooling yourself that you are somehow doing something spiritual.
One of the errors people make who try to persue a spiritual path is to elevate themselves to some super important position such that every trivial act they perform takes on the greatest importance. All they are really doing is inflating their childish egos.
Try to live a balanced life and not attach ultimate and irreversible significance to very little thing you do. You are one person on this planet. Try to keep your self importance in check.
2006-09-21 12:22:03 · answer #3 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well since we're allowed to kill other humans in the name of "God", then I don't see why killing a cricket is so bad. You're just helping it's species to adapt better to it's environment. Now there are less crickets who are prone to be discovered by humans.
2006-09-21 12:11:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's dealing with humans and only when it's murder. Killing is perfectly acceptable as long as there is just cause. It's murder that we are not to do. Killing and murder is not the same, although the outcome is the same. Does that make sense? One you have cause the other you don't, therefore it's a sin against God.
When it comes to other animals like the cricket. God gave us dominion over them. He allowed us to name them, which put us over them. We can do whatever we want to the animals. God has put us as head over them. I'm not saying abuse them, but it is not a sin to kill an animal, any animal.
2006-09-21 12:16:18 · answer #5 · answered by JohnC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She is full of bunk!
It is thou shall not murder, to lie in wait, to plan to kill!
Every thing on this earth is for our use!
Eat a steak, shoot a dear, but most important Drill for Oil!
2006-09-21 12:58:04 · answer #6 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some cultures believe in reincarnation so, you might be killing uncle Joe. The quest is up to the believer.
2006-09-21 12:11:03 · answer #7 · answered by stickinthemud 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess I'm a tender hearted soul.
Unless it is something actively harmful, I would let it go.....
2006-09-21 12:29:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, I can honestly tell you that she is taking it to the extremes.
2006-09-21 12:11:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋