08-14-2014, 11:11 PM
(08-14-2014, 09:52 PM)blueberryhill Wrote: No, the Pastor is neither Godly or a good person. He goes to the extreme in believing in a higher power to lessen his guilt over his "sinful" desires.....More likely the reason, he devoted himself to Christ. Say a serial killer is only really bad when he is killing, but he has only spent a total of 24 hours killing; he is also 50 years old. His neighbors say he goes to Church every Sunday, teaches Sunday School, is a good Father, does chores for his elderly neighbors, gives money to his Church, believes in God... So, do we define him as a Godly person or is he defined by the persons he killed. He spent less time killing and more time quoting scriptures. Oh hell, does anyone know what I am trying to say? I believe the worst "sinners" profess to love God, go to Church, quote the bible, have no tolerance, extremely judgmental, and don't practice what they preach. Religion is the spiritual part of us and it is how we treat each other which makes us Godly. We try to follow rules of our society, loving, caring, nurturing, helping, etc. and we don't have to go to Church to sustain our beliefs. As for the TV Preachers, what a scam; they get rich off of their loyal followers IMO. I am going to stop now as Maggs thinks I can be a chatterbox and if anybody understands what I just said, congratulations.....No, I am not drinking....That's why I didn't want to watch the show Dexter. I was like, 'a show with the protagonist as a serial killer? Heck no!' Then I found out he only kills killers, and it's like, does that make him a good dude? Or is he still a bad dude that's just compensating for his badness with his code? It was an interesting series for that fact.
But yeah, you can't like break someone's life up into facets and say, are they good or bad based on whether they did more good than bad, or vice versa. If a doctor saves a life that no other person could have saved, but kills the next patient on purpose... have they done more good or bad in the world? What if he saves 100 patients and kills 3, does the good outweigh the bad? It gets to a point where it's completely subjective.