RE: The Moral Argument for God
December 12, 2015 at 12:49 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2015 at 1:00 pm by Mudhammam.)
I still don't see what God has to do with objective morality. This is the same canard that is sometimes floated around which amounts to something like, "Unless you concede the existence of divine reason, there can be no knowledge of objective truths." To which I say... Bullshit. That something has a quality of "goodness" which is intellectually apprehended through abstraction does not require this Idea to exist in an intelligible heaven like Plato's Forms or inside the Mind of God any more than it does for other truths, and if that is what the OP is arguing, I've yet to see that case made. It seems like both he and his opponents simply grant that if God doesn't exist, then neither do moral truths, which is at best very unfortunate for the future of secularism.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza