(March 4, 2016 at 2:02 pm)Kiekeben Wrote:(March 4, 2016 at 11:09 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'd say a dictator is merely another human being, no different from yourself as a human being. He didn't create the universe. He isn't the ultimate supreme being of everything that exists. He didn't, Himself, create moral laws and design how they work and what they are.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that because God created the moral laws, whatever he decrees is true by definition. Is that it? But if so, do you believe that if God had said that torturing babies for fun is good, it would be good?
The difference between a dictator and god is that a dictator is here to tell you what he wants you to do and kick your ass if you don’t. On the other hand, thousands of men throughout history have taken it upon themselves to tell us what god wants us to do because he himself is silent. As a result there has never been a consensus about what god wants. Even now the Catholic Church is toying with the idea that all the past popes have been mistaken about god’s will concerning marriage, divorce, homosexuality, abortion, etc. So how do you know which pope expresses god's ultimate will when every generation before you thought they had I, toot?
The unchanging god has chosen to express his will through the changing opinions of men. As god he can do anything he wants, but why does he want to do the things that create the most confusion?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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--Voltaire
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I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.