"I
think it would be a totally monstrous doctrine to believe that God
would create a world in which, let's say, a two year old child would die
a slow and lingering death, from hunger and thirst. Because that babies
elated ancestors, Adam and Eve sinned. Again I would think that would
be a monstrous God who would make a baby suffer for that reason.
But even if you still think that, even if you sti
ll
think that the suffering of that baby is somehow deserved because of
original sin. What about the suffering of non human animals, they also
die slow, miserable deaths through droughts or hunger or disease or a
variety of other causes and not even Christians believe that they suffer
from original sin, they're not descended from Adam."
Peter Singer (moral philosopher and bioethicist)
"I
think it would be a totally monstrous doctrine to believe that God
would create a world in which, let's say, a two year old child would die
a slow and lingering death, from hunger and thirst. Because that babies
elated ancestors, Adam and Eve sinned. Again I would think that would
be a monstrous God who would make a baby suffer for that reason.
But even if you still think that, even if you sti
But even if you still think that, even if you sti
ll
think that the suffering of that baby is somehow deserved because of
original sin. What about the suffering of non human animals, they also
die slow, miserable deaths through droughts or hunger or disease or a
variety of other causes and not even Christians believe that they suffer
from original sin, they're not descended from Adam."
Peter Singer (moral philosopher and bioethicist)
Peter Singer (moral philosopher and bioethicist)
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