Re: RE: The logical consequences of omnipotence
January 26, 2013 at 4:31 am
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2013 at 4:32 am by fr0d0.)
I didn't say " you can just be yourself", I said you can be 'just' as in fair yourself.
You kid yourself Cali. And you don't seem to want to understand.
Religion is based on the human moral instinct. You have no reason to view the world as a 'just' place, and your morality must reflect that. otherwise you have some serous cognitive dissonance going on.
Carrot and stick... a posthumous Heaven and hell are not needed to motivate a believer. Heaven is right here and right now. The only caveat is the choice to give in to our sinful nature and revert to our default state.
Apparent goodness as you describe is worthless when compared to ultimate goodness. Sure I always felt I was a good person too. I never said you had to be a bad and immoral person. And Just because a person believes, that doesn't mean natural influences can't obscure their reasoning.
Whole thing is simply this: a positive world view is different to a neutral world view. The former results in more abundant life.
You kid yourself Cali. And you don't seem to want to understand.
Religion is based on the human moral instinct. You have no reason to view the world as a 'just' place, and your morality must reflect that. otherwise you have some serous cognitive dissonance going on.
Carrot and stick... a posthumous Heaven and hell are not needed to motivate a believer. Heaven is right here and right now. The only caveat is the choice to give in to our sinful nature and revert to our default state.
Apparent goodness as you describe is worthless when compared to ultimate goodness. Sure I always felt I was a good person too. I never said you had to be a bad and immoral person. And Just because a person believes, that doesn't mean natural influences can't obscure their reasoning.
Whole thing is simply this: a positive world view is different to a neutral world view. The former results in more abundant life.
