Activity 2. For HIM!

Question: You are attending a graduation ceremony where a high-ranking government official is the
keynote speaker. In the middle of the ceremony, a young man from the audience jumps up and reveals a
bomb strapped to his body. He declares that God has commanded him to blow up the auditorium and
everyone in it. However, just before he pulls the cord to set off the bomb, he turns to you and asks how
he can be absolutely sure this is what is commanded and also whether he has a moral obligation to
follow God’s command in this case. Discuss how you might answer his questions.

This type of situation is very dangerous to be honest for your answer would determine whether
the people participating in the graduation ceremony would die or not, if it happens that your answer
would irritate the suicide bomber everyone would that so answering his question one should never be
reckless and spout irrelevant things. As the situation suggest it is I which was questioned by the suicide
bomber, maintaining a rational thinking and being calm is the first thing that I must do. I will answer his
questions by starting on why it is impossible to command such action for God is forgiving no matter how
sinful one may become and that God is loving and kind. Making him also realize that it is not certain
whether God is really the one that commanded it, making use of the religious belief and using the devil
which is deemed to be evil as the perpetrator of the command. Base on his action one can determine
that he is a firm believer of God, making use of his belief and devotion and condemning those evil
actions are done only by evil beings like demons and these demons sometimes imitate others
proclaiming they’re God and corrupting the mind of his believers. With these claims, the suicide bomber
might start to question himself more which will be the perfect time to answer the key point of his
questions that there is no means to determine whether God really command him to do this action and it
all comes to him whether he thinks this action is an action that God would command to his believers.
Telling him that God has always given us the choice and has never forced us to do things against our will
that’s why it is impossible for to order such thing and he himself has the right to disobey such command
if he see it evil base on his own belief.