RE: My views on objective morality
March 5, 2016 at 10:33 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2016 at 11:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If you feel that god created morality, and it could have been whatever god defined it as, you believe in a subjective and arbitrary morality. It doesn't become objective just because "god done did it", you realize? That's not what that word means. To be honest, I'm not sure you're even discussing morality at this point, rather, acquiescence to your gods whims - whatever they may be. That it sometimes aligns with what I would call morality can only be accidental.
As to the meaning of the word good...that wouldn;t change if killing babies was included. Killing babies would simply be included. The god you worship would be the same god (and in truth is a baby killing god), he would have simply given you a different list of things that belong in the category of good..which doesn't change the -way- he defined it, at all...that -is- how good is defined, by god, according to you, above......."cuz god said so". Any elaboration beyond that ridiculous statement would be uninformative with regards to morality. There's nothing good or bad about killing babies except that god said something, one way or another. Repeat this for every moral statement.
Seems pointless to me, I'm gonna go ahead and keep reaching moral positions by careful and rational consideration. I have no need of a god to tell me what is right or wrong and clearly, god isn't commenting on what is right or wrong in the first place. Just his list of do's and don'ts.
As to the meaning of the word good...that wouldn;t change if killing babies was included. Killing babies would simply be included. The god you worship would be the same god (and in truth is a baby killing god), he would have simply given you a different list of things that belong in the category of good..which doesn't change the -way- he defined it, at all...that -is- how good is defined, by god, according to you, above......."cuz god said so". Any elaboration beyond that ridiculous statement would be uninformative with regards to morality. There's nothing good or bad about killing babies except that god said something, one way or another. Repeat this for every moral statement.
Seems pointless to me, I'm gonna go ahead and keep reaching moral positions by careful and rational consideration. I have no need of a god to tell me what is right or wrong and clearly, god isn't commenting on what is right or wrong in the first place. Just his list of do's and don'ts.
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