(August 7, 2015 at 10:20 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 9:49 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: You must certainly understand the Christian belief that we live in a fallen world as a direct result of the original sin.
What's more important to point out is that you call God evil. On what basis? Your own? You cannot call anything evil without invoking a personal moral authority of which you say does not exist.
We call things evil because of our evolutionary instincts, not anything else. "God", in this case, while still being nothing more but the most unfortunate fictional character in the history of literature, is evil because he's supposed to be omnipotent yet people die and life isn't perfect. It's that easy.
But that would still be by your own definition, opinion or feeling of what is evil. Evolutionary ethics is nothing but pragmatism. Even Darwin admitted that if the philosophical out workings were to be made of his theory the future is nothing short of unbridled violence.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.
