(January 19, 2016 at 2:04 pm)robvalue Wrote: Morality is all slippery when religion gets involved. Equivocation fallacies galore.
Morality either means "What god wants" or it means "What is best for the wellbeing of life on Earth". You have to pick one, and stick with it. They have nothing to do with each other, except by coincidence. And how do we know when they overlap? Because we understand what hurts and helps people. We have our own standard.
If all you care about is what god wants, then you don't actually care about the wellbeing of life on Earth.
The idea he'd give us a brain and then tell us to turn it off and just do what we're instructed is baffling.
Which is the fundamental flaw of religion it's the followers who only want to help themselves
and act like they want to help others. It can be seen with the bronze age and crusades the religion
itself was spread via fear and violence now it's just spread by word of mouth. What also
hurts the argument of what god want's is the bible. You have more than enough passages
to guess what god want's but doing so would make the followers void of any cultural morality,
then it really hitting a already dead horse what god want's is immoral and not good for the well being
for life on this planet. Following the bible like it's moral absolute let's take away the laws that keep people
in check and put in religious law. The truth being we would be no different from the middle east with the exception
we would have slavery which is not good for anyone. Morality and religion cannot be in the same sentence, all the
person really doing is following a book thinking it's moral absolutes.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization join today.
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