RE: The Moral Argument for God
December 11, 2015 at 10:19 am
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2015 at 10:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Using your own analogy, the basis can be a guy sitting in the room, surrounded by artists painting his portrait. The portrait of a good man, as it were. He doesn't need to be a god, and the moral values produced do not need to be objective.
None of us, absolutely none of us...base our moral values on a god. Ironically, even the hardest core believers base their moral values on a work of art.....produced by human beings. So, obviously, it doesn't take anything other than the painters in the room, or a guy sitting on a chair being painted, to produce moral values..regardless of whether they are subjective or objective....and regardless of whether or not a god exists. You're presenting a complete non-issue, and it's still just a matter of agreed upon standards of beauty, as in your analogy.
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None of us, absolutely none of us...base our moral values on a god. Ironically, even the hardest core believers base their moral values on a work of art.....produced by human beings. So, obviously, it doesn't take anything other than the painters in the room, or a guy sitting on a chair being painted, to produce moral values..regardless of whether they are subjective or objective....and regardless of whether or not a god exists. You're presenting a complete non-issue, and it's still just a matter of agreed upon standards of beauty, as in your analogy.
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