by Rayne Britt

Created on: January 08, 2009

God can not be held accountable for the unintelligent things people do in His name. When people of any faith get the idea that they are God's personal killing crew, they make whatever being they serve look bad. Despite whatever delusions of grandeur these people suffer from tells them, they are not God's agents of death. First of all, God can kill people himself; He doesn't need mortal assistance. Secondly, God has, in every religion I can think of, beings higher than humans who could kill for Him. Whether it is angels, Valkyries, or a shrouded figure wielding a scythe, He doesn't need mortals to kill on His behalf.

Most people who want to harm others will claim something or someone else as being responsible for what they have done. Charles Manson claimed the Beatles were responsible for his killing people and religious extremists blame God. Some people claim mental illness, aliens, or the Devil. The fact is, some people just want to kill people and they are looking for an excuse or a higher cause. If it can make them famous, or a martyr, or further some cause, or just get them off the hook, all the better in their mind.

Once when I was about ten or eleven years old, I knocked a hole in the living room wall. I blamed it on tripping over the cat when my parents asked what happened. But the cat didn't put a whole in the wall-I did. The point of that story is people always want something to blame for the actions of themselves, others, or the general crappiness of the world around them. When it comes down to it, they have only themselves to blame and no one likes taking the blame. But regardless of who you want to accuse, if you kill someone, whatever your cause may be, it is still your own fault. You can blame God, the voices, the world, society, the Devil, reptilian aliens, the boogie man, your childhood or anything else, but blaming them doesn't make them responsible for what you ultimately chose to do of your own volition.

More importantly here I think is, supposing you could justly lay the blame on God for peoples actions in His name, how would one hold God accountable? Do you think you can yank God from heaven down to a courtroom and charge Him with conspiracy or charge Him as an accomplice? Good luck with that! God may be patient and merciful but only for so long. In His own time He will judge all these idiots running around doing things in His name that He never asked them to do.

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