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Originally Posted by SpeakersCorner
I know, I know, the "Hell-inistas" here are already screaming, "Stop applying your sense of fairness to the whole situation. READ THE BIBLE!" (You guys remind me of Job's "friends," tbh. But that's a topic for another day.)
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Slightly off-topic, but many Christian apologists (including C.S. Lewis if I recall correctly) appeal to our innate sense of fairness as one of the moral arguments by which we can reason that a God exists. The very fact that we consider something "just" or "unjust", they would say, points to something outside of us by which justness or unjustness is measured. Even if a society considers something to be okay, say, random murder, we know that it REALLY is not okay, regardless of what that society happens to say, because of our inherent sense of justice/fairness, etc....
I've found numerous times that if something "doesn't sit right" it either means 1) it was taught to me wrong, or 2) I understood it wrong. The Christian demand that "you must forgive everyone" for example......well, obviously that's not fair at all. Anyone can do anything they want to you and YOU are on the hook to forgive them regardless? This fairness imbalance drove me to......read the Bible......and I found out that that's not what the Bible teaches. Our sense of fairness is not a voice we should drown out!
Anyway, back to the topic.
Trapped