Robin Williams dead at 63
Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 9 months ago to News
I am actually sad over this. Having watched his career starting with Mork and Mindy, up to the present, it's terrible. And what could have caused such anguish to cause him to take his own life? Dead Poet's Society come to life.
With respect, what is the fallacy in the implication that Only believers can be an 'expert' on Christianity?
But this is minor piddly crap compared to the moral problems with Christian mythology and the Christian God. Frankly, any God that would create a universe in which he intends to damn the vast majority of his sentient creations to an eternity in Hell is neither just, good, nor worthy of worship.
I don't know any moral human being that would have 10 children if he knew from the beginning that 9 would be tortured for their entire lives and the other would live a happy life. Yet that is what this god supposedly did.
From research: The phenomenon has been described in news accounts from 1981,[6] and scientific journals since 1985.[6] The phrase has appeared in news headlines since at least 1987.[7] It did not become common until the early 2000s. The phrase seems to have originated in the United States, but has also appeared in the UK, where a jury first determined someone committed suicide by cop in 2003.[8]
Some of the first research into suicide by cop was completed by Sgt. Rick Parent of the Delta Police Department. Parent's research of 843 police shootings determined that about 50% were victim precipitated homicide. Police defined victim precipitated homicide as "an incident in which an individual bent on self-destruction, engages in life threatening and criminal behavior to force law enforcement officers to kill them."[9]
The first formally labeled "Suicide by Cop" case in English legal history was a judgment made by Reverend Dr William Dolman while serving as a London coroner between 1993 and 2007.[10] It set a legal precedent and the judgment, as a cause of death, has been a part of English law since.
You'll notice that they call it "victim precipitated homicide."
Did Christ know how, when, and where He would die? Yes. Did He allow Himself to be crucified? Yes. But was His motivation one of despair? No. Did He nail Himself to the cross? No. He died because He was protecting and enabling the path back to God on our behalves.
You don't have to believe in Christianity. But I would point out two things: one - your assertions about your former life are made to try to present yourself as a subject-matter expert (appeal to authority fallacy). However, you gave up that claim when you renounced Christianity. Two: you are attempting to hijack the meaning of the word suicide by playing word games. On both counts you are presenting a disingenuous argument.
But that aside, your story makes a nice history for a guy getting whacked by the Romans. But if you believe he is God then he knew all of this would happen, indeed set it in motion so that he could carry out his mission to be killed.
In that case, it was suicide just as sure as stepping into the path of an oncoming train.
If somebody faces off with a cop, pulls an unloaded pistol, cocks the pistol, aims it at the cop and gets shot dead, and does it as part of a plan, we recognize that that is suicide. It is even called suicide by cop.
If Jesus was God he came here to die, intentionally, and knew exactly how it would go down. Not only that, but he could have stopped it any time he wanted to. He committed suicide.
If he was not God, then he was just a guy who got whacked by the Romans.
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