RE: My views on objective morality
March 8, 2016 at 7:28 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2016 at 7:31 am by bennyboy.)
(March 8, 2016 at 1:19 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 8, 2016 at 12:59 am)bennyboy Wrote: And yet you believe that an all-good God allows the rape of young children so that pedophiles can express their free will. Do you deny this? Yes or no? God HAS the power to prevent the suffering of these innocents, but chooses not do prevent it. Do you deny this? Yes or no?
Yes, I do believe God gives us free will and allows the world to go as it may, without divine intervention, without micromanaging it. NO, I don't know exactly why God allows things like rape or murder, etc, to happen. I don't know why He doesn't intervene. But as I have explained, it absolutely is NOT because I condone those things, or defend those things, or think they are anything other than objectively, inherently evil acts.
Please understand how hard this is to hear. You believe in a God of absolute and perfect goodness. . . who allows child rape.
You are a member of a religious institutions which also allows child rape, and has in fact covered it up, not always even taking steps to step it when it's been discovered.
You claim objective morality, and yet you claim that Catholics are free to interpret the Bible as they will-- which would, naturally, give them different understandings of morality.
Isn't it hard for you to reconcile all these contradictions without having a nervous breakdown? Does throwing your hands in the air and saying, "I don't know, I don't understand, I just choose to believe anyway" not ring alarm bells in that part of your brain still capable of logical thought?
Christians often challenge atheists to ask "What if I'm wrong?" I suggest that you do the same. Look in the real world for any sign of your God, of salvation, or of any goodness beyond the instincts of the human animal. You will find none, and you should therefore not believe in your God idea, which clearly is not represented in reality.
