(January 9, 2016 at 5:44 am)robvalue Wrote: I could up the stakes further:
Say you found out for sure that there is no God. Would you continue to follow what you had previously thought was his best teachings, because you think they are good teachings? Or would his nonexistence then make them irrelevant to you? If it's the latter, what would you do instead?
That's an interesting question, and it's hard to say for sure. I know that I do look at things differently since I came to believe in God. And I don't know how that would change, if I came to believe that there was not a God an no objective "ought" in how I should behave. I would think that I wouldn't change all that much, as I am a different person, then who I used to be.
I don't think it's a question of if I would be moral, without God, but what is "moral" without an objective transcendent definition.
