RE: My views on objective morality
March 5, 2016 at 3:01 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2016 at 3:02 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(March 5, 2016 at 12:50 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote:(March 5, 2016 at 10:29 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: He is God, so killing babies would be whatever He made it be. But in the world we live in, and the God I know/believe in defines goodness as loving your neighbor as yourself, treating others the way you want to be treated, feeding the hungry, giving drink the to thirsty, clothing the naked, etc... things like that. That is what He has established to be goodness. If killing babies was good, then the word "good" would literally have an entirely different meaning, considering it directly contradicts the very way good has been defined by God. Also, God (the one I believe to be real) is love. If He wanted us to torture babies, He would be a completely different entity than the God I would have thought existed.
So if God made killing babies good, then you would not want to be good?
Also, what if "the naked" don't want to be clothed? :-D
The thing is, we have an inherent understanding of good and evil. Generally speaking, people know that torturing/killing babies is not good. I believe God gave us that understanding. So a world where God has established that goodness is killing babies/etc, would be a very different world. It wouldn't be the world we live in, and we wouldn't be the people that we are.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
