It's called infanticide when you have one of your children killed.
2007-03-08 05:40:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, then, most notably, Christianity!
This is Christian dogma:
God created the world in 6 days, man from clay, woman from man's rib. He placed these two in a garden, where they were tempted by a talking serpent into disobeying God by eating of the "Tree of Knowledge." This "Original Sin" cursed not only this original man and woman, but all their progeny throughout eternity, the taint being passed via the semen to future generations.
Yet God, in His infinite mercy, nonetheless chose a certain "people" with whom He struck a covenant, which stipulated among other things that they regularly appease him with blood sacrifices in expiation of their "sins."
Eventually God decided to send His own Son to earth, so that his chosen could offer that Son back up to God as a sacrifice to end all sacrifices, thereby destroying the curse of Original Sin. All that humanity from that point on has to do to be assured of "salvation" is to believe in and profess the efficacy of this final blood sacrifice to God.
"Christians" may complain about my tone, but everything that I've said is orthodox Christian doctrine straight out of the box.
Pretty sick stuff, huh?
"The Christian God is not involved in infantcide as others have stated."
Only the most ignorant and/or disingenuous of Christian imbeciles would have the audacity to make such a mind-numbingly false statement. Aside from the designation of His Son as a sacrifice to His own bloodthirst - what about God's massacre of the Egyptian firstborn in response to the similar edict of Pharaoh with regard to the Hebrew firstborn? Is God off the hook because this was "revenge infanticide?" After all, He "hardened Pharaoh's heart" Himself purely to be assured of the outcome!
2007-03-08 05:43:45 · answer #1 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A number of religions of ancient time had this feature. The one which remains which is founded on the notion of a god appeased by infanticide is of course Christianity. But since Trinitarianism tells us Jesus and the Father are one, you could also say it's based in parricide. And since Jesus said, "No man takes my life from me, but I lay it down," you could also say it's based in suicide.
Whichever way you put it, Yahweh is a god who from the OT through the NT is appeased by blood sacrifice. It's a barbaric and neanderthalic theology any way you look at, which is probably why it's most literal adherents are so intent on dragging us back to the caves.
"Geico -so easy a Yahweh worshipper could do it."
2007-03-08 05:49:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm assuming you mean Christianity and/or Judaism. In Genesis 22, God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son. The tenth and final plague of Egypt was the death of all Egyptian first born males. And, if you believe in Christianity, God sacrificed his only son.
So, is this the religion you speak of?
2007-03-08 05:45:49 · answer #3 · answered by Bonny K 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Secular Humanism -- Proof, the millions of babies killed all the time in the name of the worship of sex. AKA - Abortion
Have all the fun you want, and kill your baby so that you can continue to do so.
The Christian God is not involved in infantcide as others have stated. He never intended Isaac to die on the altar, he was testing to see how much Abraham trusted Him. He obviously stopped him before he did it, so that proves it was never His intent. He provided a ram instead of the son.
2007-03-08 05:48:33 · answer #4 · answered by BaseballGrrl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Judaen/Christian god. It happened with Abraham when the god told him to sacrifice his son to prove his love and devotion to it. It is written that an angel stopped the process and saved the son by instead sacrificing an animal and effectively tricking the god.
2007-03-08 05:45:14 · answer #5 · answered by Thought 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1. The Lord (of the Bible)-called Judgment on nations who refused to follow him. Don't even go to the Abraham thing-God didn't want Isaiah dead, it was a test.
2. Secular humanists promote this all the time-"women's right" to kill her child (abortion, partial birth abortion).
3. Islamic god- through retalliation
4. Hindu god (Sheva & others)- through the caste system
2007-03-08 05:50:07 · answer #6 · answered by Jeff- <3 God <3 people 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Again, you're going to say Christianity/Judiasim. You're not going to turn people away from God by your questions. It was the only way we could be given the gift of Grace. Accept it.
2007-03-08 05:44:29 · answer #7 · answered by GLSigma3 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That'd be Christianity.
2007-03-08 05:44:23 · answer #8 · answered by Architeuth 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋