RE: Argument from Conscience
August 7, 2015 at 9:22 am
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2015 at 9:29 am by Whateverist.)
(August 6, 2015 at 5:57 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: ("Psychological explanations ... Alternatively, conscience arises from the sub-conscious and we confabulate a moral justification. That accounts for the negative feelings for ignoring the conscience. To account for conscience by claiming "God did it" because there is "no other explanation" but without considering the subconscious is an argument from ignorance.")
And recognizing such to be the case, as I do, that can only mean that "God did it" must be a formulation, acceptable to Chad, where reconciling that the voice of conscience arises in the sub-conscious is not efficacious for him. Some, a certain new member for one, say the purpose of god believe and religious activity is precisely to still the ever restless conscious mind from weighing alternatives ceaselessly. God is the evolutionary antidote for excessive reliance on the conscious mind. It is how you reap the benefits of a contingencies calculating mind without driving yourself bonkers. Could be.
