“Kevin, if you tell your daughter, your beautiful daughter, ‘Hey, don’t put your hand on the hot stove.’ She can look at that and say, ‘My dad’s a tyrant, he won’t give me liberty to put my hand on the hot stove.’ The fact of the matter is if she puts her hand on the hot stove, bad things will happen.”
Which is why when I raised kids, I didn’t just set rules and walk off. I taught them WHY it was bad to touch a stove. Most of the Commandments are just behavior rules without explanation.One commandment is to build your house so the roof has a parapet around the edge. No explanation. So, is that commandment still in force if i live in a place where heavy snowfall would collapse the roof? We can justify not observing it, but we don’t really have an exception.
"God’s law is like that.”
Yeah, that’d be abuse.
“God’s law will tell us that if we do things that are bad, bad things will happen.”
No, the law usually just says ’Don’t.’ No support.
“If we put our hands on the stove, we’ll get burned.”
And religion will make it a rule to never, ever, ever touch the stove, whether or not it’s hot.
Like Kosher. GOD said not to seethe a kid in the mother’s milk. The Hebrews made it a law to never mix meat and dairy. Kind of an overreaction, but without explanations we can’t know the purpose of the law.
"If we embrace homosexuality, we’ll destroy society,”
Feel free to show how.
“we’ll destroy lives, we’ll destroy families, we’ll destroy everything.”
Actually, YOU people destroy lives and families exactly because you WON’T embrace family members that are gay.
“It’s not just that God just hates homosexuals, there’s a reason why he hates it.”
Far more likely the authors are homophobic and put those words into the god-character’s mouth.
“It’s the same reason you would hate your daughter putting her hand on a hot stove.”
Except I didn’t hate that. Kids make mistakes. Kids learn. There’s nothing there to hate.
I do hate your analogy, though. It sucks.