RE: The Moral Argument for God
December 18, 2015 at 12:46 pm
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2015 at 12:49 pm by Whateverist.)
(December 18, 2015 at 11:18 am)athrock Wrote: Clearly, there are atheists who act morally just as there are theists who act immorally.
How can you expect this to be 'clear' if those you're addressing reject objective morality?
(December 18, 2015 at 11:18 am)athrock Wrote: 1. How would you know that you have acted in an objectively moral way?
How do you know? Aren't you just rolling the dice when you endorse biblical values? Certainly you have no more evidence for thinking biblical values are the bomb than you do for believing in a god.
(December 18, 2015 at 11:18 am)athrock Wrote: 2. Who decides whether your behavior is "good"? You? Your friends and family?
Everyone may have an opinion, just as I do. Who decides that biblical values are objectively the bestest? That would be little ol' you. So what you take to be objective rests entirely on your subjectivity the same way our knowingly subjective values do.
(December 18, 2015 at 11:18 am)athrock Wrote: What if all of your friends and family are psychopathic killers who think you have done a good thing by robbing a liquor store without leaving any living witnesses?
And what if you grow up and quit writing such absurd drivel?
Is writing these obvious distortions "good" in your personal opinion, athrock?
(December 18, 2015 at 11:18 am)athrock Wrote: I think the reason billboards like this are being purchased is because atheists recognize that the Moral Argument is one that they cannot really refute.
I've never contributed a dime to such billboards but I do find them amusing. Yeah you can take comfort in knowing that we can't prove your subjectively held morals aren't objectively moral any more than we can prove your grand Poobah law giver is total silly stuff. But that has more to do with its being silly stuff than with its being true.