(January 16, 2016 at 8:33 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Since you admit all your concepts of virtue are relative and virtue is just what we decide
I don't know what you mean by this...relative to what?
Quote:just to let you know, I look for objective guidance as opposed to defining morals by my desires.
What objective guidance? If you mean the Qu'ran, I don't consider that objective. At all.
Quote:So until you can prove your morals objectively, no one will take you guys seriously.
Oh ho ho. So you speak for EVERYONE, now, do you???
Quote:People however will take Islam seriously and it still has the most converts coming to it.
Popularity does not necessarily equal virtue, either.
George W. Bush got two terms, after all.
The Backstreet Boys were popular, too.
Besides, there is another philosophy that is growing as fast as Islam...and that is Atheism.
So pull in your horns.
Quote:you keep yapping your subjective virtues which has no reality no substance in your own words,
"no objective moral facts exist" according to you,
Again, I don't know what this means. What are you talking about???
Quote:People will look for guidance, for purpose, and they will find a book that points to the way of that path and reminds of a Lord who upon him is the guiding of the way (...)
"they will, they will, they will...."
You're quite the authority on what conclusively WILL or WILL NOT happen, now, aren't you?
Quote:(...) and who doesn't share your sense of virtue fortunately regarding this
"mind your own goddamned business" attitude.
WOW. SCARY SHIT RIGHT THERE.
You are so convinced that YOUR book is the right one,
and so convinced that God is on YOUR side,
and so sure of what God wants...
You sound just like a Southern Baptist.
The fact that you have a problem with being told to mind your own business,
especially regarding people who are not hurting you or taking anything from you,
the fact that you actually believe God has given you guidelines
and no-one else's beliefs are valid,
THAT is why people have a problem with Religion....and Islam in particular.
If God wants to descend from the Heavens and pitch me and all the other non-muslims and infidels into hell,
fine with me.
But God Himself has to show up and do it.
Not His followers.
Otherwise, I have no way of knowing if it's really His will,
or just a bunch of raving lunatics who want to kill me because my way just doesn't jive with their way,
and they can't handle that.