VALID QUESTION BY AN BELIEVER;
WHY KRISHNA ALLOWED HIS KINSMEN TO BECOME SO IRREMEDIABLY SINFUL ?WHY INFINITE REGRESS?
"...To say that God's ways are a mystery-right from why he created the universe in the first place to why things happen now;to say that Krishna destroyed the entire city of Dwarka and killed his entire clan because he had to live up to the curse Ghandhari had hurled at him-to say
WHY KRISHNA ALLOWED HIS KINSMEN TO BECOME SO IRREMEDIABLY SINFUL ?WHY INFINITE REGRESS?
"...To say that God's ways are a mystery-right from why he created the universe in the first place to why things happen now;to say that Krishna destroyed the entire city of Dwarka and killed his entire clan because he had to live up to the curse Ghandhari had hurled at him-to say
all this is not to answer the question;it is just to push the question one step back.For then we have to explain why Krishna did what he did to invite the curse".
[Arun Shourie;Does he know a mother's heart?How suffering refutes religions;page 194].
*"...Even so many of the 'explanations merely shift the question one step further back.Krishna exterminates his entire clan.He entirely destroys his city, Dwarka.To say that he did so as fulfillment of the curse that Ghandhari had hurled at him thirteen years earlier does not explain this act. It merely shifts the question:we have then to explain why Ghandhari hurled that curse,why Krishna allowed his kinsmen to become so irremediably sinful that the only way out was to destroy all of them...Ultimately we have to explain the original question:why did Krishna-that-is God not so arrange matters that they would not eventually result in his having to exterminate his entire clan and to erase his city from the face of the earth?".
[Ibid,page 359].
[Arun Shourie;Does he know a mother's heart?How suffering refutes religions;page 194].
*"...Even so many of the 'explanations merely shift the question one step further back.Krishna exterminates his entire clan.He entirely destroys his city, Dwarka.To say that he did so as fulfillment of the curse that Ghandhari had hurled at him thirteen years earlier does not explain this act. It merely shifts the question:we have then to explain why Ghandhari hurled that curse,why Krishna allowed his kinsmen to become so irremediably sinful that the only way out was to destroy all of them...Ultimately we have to explain the original question:why did Krishna-that-is God not so arrange matters that they would not eventually result in his having to exterminate his entire clan and to erase his city from the face of the earth?".
[Ibid,page 359].
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