Children, religion, and death
Isreal has tried to make more friends today by killing some Palestinian kids sleeping in a row of houses.
A thought occurred to me as I was reading that: if the highest honor in Islam is to be martyred in the service of Islam, and if we suppose that this qualifies as such (since the Zionists did it), shouldn’t Palestinians and other Muslims be lining up to have their kids killed by the infidels? If this form of death results in the greatest place in paradise, I’m not sure what the problem is. They should be applauding Israel.
Not too long ago, I was reading a Christian book by a guy called Lee Strobel. There’s a brief discussion of whether children go to Heaven if they die before the age of accountability. Since they can’t responsibly have chosen Christ, the argument goes, god grants mercy and brings them into the fold gratis. That’s cool. If I were god, that’s what I’d do. Unless the kid had a mullet hair cut. It’s a coin toss at that point.
But I digress…The point here is that if that really is what the ideology teaches, it seems to me to make complete moral sense to kill your children. By allowing them to grow up, you are risking their eternal damnation. Kill them in their crib, and they get free seats in the heavenly choir.
It sounds like I’m joking, but follow me: if a) children killed by their infidel enemy or b) children killed in any manner get to go to heaven, it should follow that their deaths should be welcomed and even encouraged. To do any less would be to grant them greater leeway in spending eternity away from god. The fact that you’re alive today demonstrates–to me at least–that your parents didn’t love you enough to want you to go to heaven. How sad. 
Note: please don’t kill your children.
Oh, and one other note: Strobel’s book has a byline title of “…the greatest objections to Christianity.” His book has absolutely nothing to do with the greatest objections to Christianity, so don’t pick it up thinking that it does.
