God is a coward

[jack]

Sorry, not really. (Well, not necessarily. Uh, I mean, I didn't have any reason to say that, other than as a humorous example of a controversial subject. Argue amongst yourselves if you so wish, but don't blame me. Just look at this bracket, it's amazing how many words saying nothing takes up :))

Where is everyone? My "inbox" has been nearly unclogged of lj updates recently -- have you all become productive or something? Have you all moved to chiark or myspace?

ETA: OK, that seemed to work :)

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[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

Jesus willingly stayed in Gethsemane and accepted not merely a risk but a certainty of being put to horrible death, but then again he did rise bodily from the dead, and one has to assume he had some idea in advance that that was going to happen. It certainly doesn't seem to me that that shows the same kind of courage it would show if you did the same thing, although I suppose there's still some undeniable courage in facing up to the pain even if you know there won't be permanent death at the end of the experience.

Mmm, one could argue that from within the Christian tradition, belief in the Resurrection of the body means that we would be showing similar courage.

quoting Common People – "if you called your dad he could stop it all"

But he doesn't. He chooses not to. He chose to act and sticks with that choice. Does going through something which you could have avoided for the sake of other people more impressive/courageous/whatever?