Reply #161

what you are referencing where you say Jesus claimed children got sick because their parents "pissed off God." The closest I can think of is here:

Joh 9:1-3 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. (2) And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? (3) Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

And, of course, it isn't saying what you claim.

There are some Old Testament scriptures which read along the lines of "the sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation," but then they often conclude with "but the mercy of God I will visit to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments." Other scriptures also read that sons are not punished for the sins of their fathers, which implies that anyone who repents of their sins is reconciled with God. But, again, this also wasn't what you were referencing.

I also do not see any instance where illness is attributed to Demons. Jesus healed lepers, raised the dead, cured blindness, and none of their various ailments were attributed to demons. He did not heal lepers by casting out a demon. When it was a demon, it was explicitly described as a demon being cast away and the problem being demon possession. You could say that they were all suffering from mental illness, but that isn't what you're saying.

I do not spend much time going over the works of Zeus and deciding if he was an "asshole" or not. In fact, they were showing Odysseus on TV a few days ago and not once did it occur to me to wonder, one way or the other, how moral or immoral any of the fictional characters were. I have also never once fought with a Wiccan, or any other various form of pagan, about the morality or immorality of Seth, Ishtar, and so on and so forth. "Fictional" characters never annoy me enough to go through the trouble!