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what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
My position is that nobody, Christian or not, has access to absolute objective morality.

If I ask a Christian how they know what kind of killing is considered murder, chances are they won't resort to an invisible silent God for the answer. They'll try to rely on their reasoning faculty instead. Well, that's an indicator of subjective morality, not objective.

So whether the Christian likes it or not, we're all in the same general boat with regards to the question of morality.
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RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
(May 11, 2014 at 9:48 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Ask them what they mean by morality. If it has nothing to do with the well-being of sentient beings but instead arbitrary rules established by an ancient deity on a long lost stone tablet, then they're not talking about morality. If they reply that it is the subject that deals with how human beings ought to treat others, then tell him you decide how to treat others the same way they do, or at least should: by experiencing suffering and well-being and using your brain to figure out how to best bring about results that multiply the latter and diminish the former.

I love this response!
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RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
It's a loaded question, morality is totally subjective.
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RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
This is a great question, I would suggest reading some Christopher Hitchens, he hit's this topic right on the head.
"Just call me Bruce Wayne. I'd rather be Batman."
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RE: what are we supposed to say
(June 4, 2014 at 7:27 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: What source do you have a problem with, the source you disagree with that compiled unbiased studies information in a manner you don't want to hear?

I have a problem with the user-generated source that disallows the citations of primary research.

Quote: This is sourced material, you and Waldorf want to pretend it's inaccurate because it upsets you, the same as the rampant sex abuse and child molestation in every Christian
denomination.

It does not upset me at all because I know even if your data are correct they are irrelevant. Morality cannot exist without God and this does nothing to support otherwise.

Quote: http://m.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why...story.html

Those poor atheists; nobody likes them.

(June 4, 2014 at 8:20 pm)Tonus Wrote: Experience, common sense, empathy, sympathy... any number of factors will help me to determine what is the right or wrong decision to make in most situations.

Care to elaborate?

Quote: It seems to me that it is the first step in the basis for anyone's morality. What do they stand to gain, and what are the potential costs.

White Americans gained an awful lot through the antebellum slave trade of the 18th and 19th Centuries, the Germans gained a vast amount of scientific knowledge through conducting scientific tests on the Jewish people so were those acts morally justified then?

(June 4, 2014 at 8:28 pm)Irrational Wrote: My position is that nobody, Christian or not, has access to absolute objective morality.

If I ask a Christian how they know what kind of killing is considered murder, chances are they won't resort to an invisible silent God for the answer. They'll try to rely on their reasoning faculty instead. Well, that's an indicator of subjective morality, not objective.

You’re trying to argue that the laws of deduction are subjective not objective? Or is that not what you meant by reasoning?

Quote: So whether the Christian likes it or not, we're all in the same general boat with regards to the question of morality.

So you wish, but unfortunately for you the Christian can account for the existence of transcendent laws of morality that apply to all humans and you cannot.

(June 5, 2014 at 10:54 am)Black_Pegasus Wrote: I love this response!

Why? I found it rather poorly thought out to be honest.
(June 5, 2014 at 11:06 am)Hoopington Wrote: It's a loaded question, morality is totally subjective.

How do you know this? If a person stipulates that child rape is morally good then child rape is morally good?


(June 5, 2014 at 11:58 am)elconquistador Wrote: This is a great question, I would suggest reading some Christopher Hitchens, he hit's this topic right on the head.


Hitchens argued that abortion was morally wrong, do you agree?
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RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
(June 6, 2014 at 4:59 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 4, 2014 at 7:27 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: What source do you have a problem with, the source you disagree with that compiled unbiased studies information in a manner you don't want to hear?

I have a problem with the user-generated source that disallows the citations of primary research.

It did cite primary research. You obviously have not viewed the footnotes.

(June 6, 2014 at 4:59 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
Quote: This is sourced material, you and Waldorf want to pretend it's inaccurate because it upsets you, the same as the rampant sex abuse and child molestation in every Christian
denomination.

It does not upset me at all because I know even if your data are correct they are irrelevant. Morality cannot exist without God and this does nothing to support otherwise.

You are wrong, and cannot support that assertion, yet you keep throwing out there. Lots of societies do not believe in the Christian God. Those societies also have moral codes. Are you really this ignorant, and proud of it too, Wally?

I am living proof that you're wrong. Your morality includes the murder of children, rape of women, and keeping of slaves as moral. That's not morality, it's barbarism. You're also admitting that your mother was an absolute failure of a mother, and that you need a written cheat sheet to convince people you are a moral person with a conscience.

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Congratulations. You've just admitted to being a sociopath. I sincerely hope you don't own firearms, or frequent areas with lots of children, or reproduce more sociopaths.

(June 6, 2014 at 4:59 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
Quote: http://m.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why...story.html

Those poor atheists; nobody likes them.

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You're a sick man, you know that?

(June 6, 2014 at 4:59 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: White Americans gained an awful lot through the antebellum slave trade of the 18th and 19th Centuries, the Germans gained a vast amount of scientific knowledge through conducting scientific tests on the Jewish people so were those acts morally justified then?

Your bible was used to justify those acts.

(June 6, 2014 at 4:59 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: How do you know this? If a person stipulates that child rape is morally good then child rape is morally good?

If Christians get their morality from God and The Bible, is that why they can't stop raping kids?

At this point, given your unsupported assertions, I'm asserting the following:

Based on your view of morality, and that humans will always behave selfishly where God does not expressly forbid it: You are a child rapist. You have raped at least a dozen children this year. I know this because your Biblical morality does not prevent it, and you have stated morality can only come from God and the Bible. Isn't it time to stop, Wally? As a secular person, I'm begging you: Stop raping little children. You're scarring them for the rest of their lives. If you can't stop, you need secular help for your urges.

By the way, these page-long Gish gallops of yours are really tiresome.
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RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
(June 6, 2014 at 4:59 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 4, 2014 at 8:28 pm)Irrational Wrote: My position is that nobody, Christian or not, has access to absolute objective morality.

If I ask a Christian how they know what kind of killing is considered murder, chances are they won't resort to an invisible silent God for the answer. They'll try to rely on their reasoning faculty instead. Well, that's an indicator of subjective morality, not objective.

You’re trying to argue that the laws of deduction are subjective not objective? Or is that not what you meant by reasoning?

No, I wasn't arguing that. I don't see how you have failed at understanding the point I was making. A very simple point, mind you. Or was this supposed cluelessness a tactic you just employed to run away from the point I was making?

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Quote: So whether the Christian likes it or not, we're all in the same general boat with regards to the question of morality.

So you wish, but unfortunately for you the Christian can account for the existence of transcendent laws of morality that apply to all humans and you cannot.

I haven't seen one do that yet. Can you demonstrate to us what sort of killing objectively constitutes murder? Is slaughtering babies, for example, considered murder?
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(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: It did cite primary research. You obviously have not viewed the footnotes.

Nope, you cited Wikipedia which is a tertiary source that disallows the citation of primary research. You need to read their user policy.

Quote: You are wrong, and cannot support that assertion, yet you keep throwing out there.

Have you not been reading this thread? Every atheistic attempt to define morality in a logically cogent and defensible manner fails horribly. That is support.


Quote: Lots of societies do not believe in the Christian God. Those societies also have moral codes. Are you really this ignorant, and proud of it too, wally?

You’re conflating belief with ontology. If I do not believe in the existence of gravity does that mean I can jump and never come down? If I do not believe in death does that mean I will never experience it? Whether or not someone believes god exists is irrelevant. God still has to exist in order for morality to exist.

Quote: I am living proof that you're wrong.

No, you’re inability to logically define morality is some of the best evidence I have and for that I thank you.


Quote: Your morality includes the murder of children, rape of women, and keeping of slaves as moral. That's not morality, it's barbarism.

No it does not. If God does not exist why would murder, rape, and infanticide be morally wrong?

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You're a sick man, you know that?

Why? Because I value rationality more than you do? Then guilty as charged.

Quote: Your bible was used to justify those acts.

As was Darwinism so your point is? Were those acts morally wrong if God does not exist?

Quote: If Christians get their morality from God and The Bible, is that why they can't stop raping kids?

If God does not exist then why is raping children morally wrong? You really cannot answer these simple questions?

Quote: I know this because your Biblical morality does not prevent it, and you have stated morality can only come from God and the Bible.

No, that’s not what I said. The God of scripture must exist in order for morality to exist.

Quote: Isn't it time to stop, Wally? As a secular person, I'm begging you: Stop raping little children. You're scarring them for the rest of their lives. If you can't stop, you need secular help for your urges.

If God does not exist then why is raping children morally wrong? I thought morality was subjective. It’s hilarious you cannot answer such a simple question.

Quote: By the way, these page-long Gish gallops are really tiresome.

Then stop replying, it’s obvious you’ve been beaten for quite some time now Mr. IQ.

Duck! Goose! Swan! Excuse my fowl language.

(June 6, 2014 at 5:08 pm)Irrational Wrote: No, I wasn't arguing that. I don't see how you have failed at understanding the point I was making. A very simple point, mind you. Or was this supposed cluelessness a tactic you just employed to run away from the point I was making?

Correct me if I am wrong but did you not say that Christian morality is subjective because they have to appeal to their reasoning? How does using logical discernment make something subjective? Or was that nothing more than rhetorical fluff?

Quote:I haven't seen one do that yet. Can you demonstrate to us what sort of killing objectively constitutes murder? Is slaughtering babies, for example, considered murder?

Sure, murder is any killing of another person that violates God’s decreed will.
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RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
We aren't supposed to say anything, because we don't owe Christians an explanation of our morals. They can't justify theirs, so why should we?
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RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
Wow, Stadler Waldorf just can't stop Gish Galloping, can he?*

(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: It did cite primary research. You obviously have not viewed the footnotes.

Nope, you cited Wikipedia which is a tertiary source that disallows the citation of primary research. You need to read their user policy.

And you need to get your prescription checked if you can't see the sources at the footer of a Wikipedia article.

(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: You are wrong, and cannot support that assertion, yet you keep throwing out there.

Have you not been reading this thread? Every atheistic attempt to define morality in a logically cogent and defensible manner fails horribly. That is support.

You can't support <God Exists,> and it is well supported morality is evolved social contract and evolved instinct. Notice the videos posted showing 3 month old babies can determine right from wrong. Evolution is demonstrable. God is not demonstrable.

You have failed at supporting your points more profoundly than your mother failed at raising an ethical child.

(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Lots of societies do not believe in the Christian God. Those societies also have moral codes. Are you really this ignorant, and proud of it too, wally?

You’re conflating belief with ontology. If I do not believe in the existence of gravity does that mean I can jump and never come down? If I do not believe in death does that mean I will never experience it? Whether or not someone believes god exists is irrelevant. God still has to exist in order for morality to exist.

Your Bible is your source of your morality, not God. Your only source of instructions from God is the bible. That's not conflating ontology with belief. That's pointing out your belief in something because it is written in a book. The only experience you have of your God, other than hallucinations you pretend are God, is from a book. If you explained Gravity as produced by a psychokenetic purple turtle floating in the Kupiter belt, your explanation of gravity would be wrong. Similar to your unsupported claims to morality. Your God didn't exist before 2000 years ago. Your belief does not conform to, nor does it dictate reality.

IF YOU CANNOT DEMONSTRATE YOUR GOD EXISTS, you can not begin to advance nor support the claim "Morality is from God."

You have written page after page of Argument from Ignorance, ignoring any counter-argument as "unsupported."

Here are claims you have asserted:
<God Exists>
<Objective Morality Exists>
<Evolutionary Psychology does not explain morality>
<Psychology does not explain morality>
<God is the only possible source of morality>
<God is the source of morality>
<Gods morality can contradict human morality yet still be the source of human morality>
<An omniscient being who commands rape, infanticide, and slavery can be a source of morality>
<The Bible is inspired by God>
You have utterly failed to support even one of these claims, and yet you feign concern about MY citations?

(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: I am living proof that you're wrong.

No, you’re inability to logically define morality is some of the best evidence I have and for that I thank you.

I already have, repeatedly. Yet you're too willfully ignorant to consider the fact that morality is an evolved social mechanism. Demonstrable. Unlike your God.

(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Your morality includes the murder of children, rape of women, and keeping of slaves as moral. That's not morality, it's barbarism.

No it does not. If God does not exist why would murder, rape, and infanticide be morally wrong?

God commands murder, rape and infanticide. Have you not read The Bible? They are morally wrong because we have evolved to view them as morally wrong, because it is beneficial as a tribal animal to do so. If God were the only source of morality, we would not be able to see God's behavior in the Bible as immoral. I know this is hard for amoral individuals like you to understand.

(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: You're a sick man, you know that?

Why? Because I value rationality more than you do? Then guilty as charged.

Because I don't need a cheat sheet for morality. You do. You can't grasp morality without a book listing things like: "Murder Is Wrong," in big, block letters.

(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Your bible was used to justify those acts.

As was Darwinism so your point is? Were those acts morally wrong if God does not exist?

"Social Darwinism" has absolutely nothing to do with Evolution. Google it. Educate yourself.

(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: If Christians get their morality from God and The Bible, is that why they can't stop raping kids?

If God does not exist then why is raping children morally wrong? You really cannot answer these simple questions?

Because society agrees it is morally wrong, and our evolved conscience determines it is wrong. You keep repeating the same questions that have already been answered. Do you have some sort of learning disorder that prevents you from absorbing new information?

(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: I know this because your Biblical morality does not prevent it, and you have stated morality can only come from God and the Bible.

No, that’s not what I said. The God of scripture must exist in order for morality to exist.

Prove it. You keep asserting this, but have yet to offer a single shred of evidence.

(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Isn't it time to stop, Wally? As a secular person, I'm begging you: Stop raping little children. You're scarring them for the rest of their lives. If you can't stop, you need secular help for your urges.

If God does not exist then why is raping children morally wrong? I thought morality was subjective. It’s hilarious you cannot answer such a simple question.

See above, try sounding out the words with your finger as a guide if you have trouble.

(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: By the way, these page-long Gish gallops are really tiresome.

Then stop replying, it’s obvious you’ve been beaten for quite some time now Mr. IQ.

Duck! Goose! Swan! Excuse my fowl language.

*All of us are well aware this is your ultimate goal. You make fallacious claims you can't support, and you continue to make them until people get tired of replying to them, and then you dance around in your underpants thinking you've won a debate.

You haven't. You're simply delusional, and ranting at us to reinforce deep seated delusions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

(June 6, 2014 at 5:08 pm)Irrational Wrote:
(June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: No, I wasn't arguing that. I don't see how you have failed at understanding the point I was making. A very simple point, mind you. Or was this supposed cluelessness a tactic you just employed to run away from the point I was making?

Correct me if I am wrong but did you not say that Christian morality is subjective because they have to appeal to their reasoning? How does using logical discernment make something subjective? Or was that nothing more than rhetorical fluff?

Quote:I haven't seen one do that yet. Can you demonstrate to us what sort of killing objectively constitutes murder? Is slaughtering babies, for example, considered murder?

Sure, murder is any killing of another person that violates God’s decreed will.

How do you know God's Decreed Will? Because it's written in The Bible.

Thank you for proving my point: You get your morality from The Bible.

The bible. The bible is a claim, not evidence.
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