RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 23, 2015 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2015 at 12:38 pm by watchamadoodle.)
(February 23, 2015 at 12:08 pm)Ignorant Wrote: Hmm. Still don't know what you mean by the word "good", but I appreciate your attempt at describing a position of the Catholic tradition. If there are personalized notions of "goodness", what is yours? What is it about a thing, an act, whatever, that when you observe it or consider it, you make the judgment that it is good. WHAT is it? What do you actually DISCUSS in order to unify your personalized notions for collective actions?
I did give you a list of examples of things that I consider good (kindness to animals, etc.)
I might also define good as a way of comparing outcomes of actions. Here is a link to decision theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_theory ).
I'm not sure what kind of definition you are looking for.
I think you might be arguing that we can't discuss whether the hypothetical Christian God is good without an objective definition of good? If so, I disagree. In a democracy, we are able to utilize subjective definitions of good.