(February 29, 2016 at 3:09 pm)Drich Wrote:(February 29, 2016 at 2:22 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: There is no God, so your threat is empty. Just as your defense of God is empty. If God indeed has a speck (or a plank) in his eye is not negated by the fact that I have a plank in mine. That simply doesn't follow.In the parable it self Jesus said "Remove the plank from your own eye first, so that you may see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
If you have a plank in your eye how can you then see the speck?
The parable is nothing more than an analogy. What doesn't hold in the literal argument doesn't hold in an analogue, unless the analogy is a false one. Which in this case it is. Moral judgement isn't like vision in that it is not impaired by hypocrisy. You may question the moral standing of the hypocrite, but that does not make his judgements false. Only the falsity of the moral judgements makes them false. You claim that relative morality has no standing in which to judge. It has all the standing it needs as the only type of morality which exists. Your God does not exist, so "His" morality is nonexistent. You can't do better than the only kind of morality which exists. If you disagree, the burden is on you to show that another kind of morality exists.