RE: My views on objective morality
March 9, 2016 at 1:09 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2016 at 1:12 am by Mystic.)
(March 8, 2016 at 9:51 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm gonna say this one more time, and this goes to everyone.+1
I believe God allows nature to take its course. I believe He allows people to have free will. He let's things happen as they would, naturally.
He does not resort to divine intervention to micromanage the world.
From that, there are good and bad consequences. One of the bad consequences is rape. However, I trust God to know that the good consequences of His decision to give us free will and to not be a micromanager, outweigh the bad consequences of it. Im not saying the bad consequences aren't bad. I'm not saying rape, specifically, has good consequences. I'm saying I trust that the good consequences in general, of giving us free will, in general... of not resorting to divine intervention, of letting nature take its course, etc, etc, outweigh the bad.
What are the "good consequences?" That I do not know. I'm just a little human, living in a tiny section of the universe, for a tiny amount of time. I'm not God. I can't see everything.
Also, I believe that if God did become human like us He would stop a rape if it came to it. After all, He did stop the stoning of an adulteress. But He is not human right now. And stopping bad things from happening would require divine intervention, taking away free will, micromanaging. Which are all things that He, for whatever reason that we can't see right now, has deemed would do more harm than good in the grand scheme of things. (Also, I never said rape goes unpunished so I'm not sure where that straw came from.)
So, that's it. That's all there is to it. You may not like it, but at this point I honestly don't give a fuck. It's your decision whether you choose to accept my differences and still be cool with me, as I accept yours, or not. But there is nothing else I can say on the subject that hasn't already been said. So take it or leave it.
I think if God would prevent rape, he should prevent murder. If he prevents murder, he should prevent wars. If he prevents wars, he would force everyone to accept his representative on earth.
The reward of sticking to God's Guide and guidance on earth would that have little reward or merit. The trial being harder makes the reward more rewarding.
And to what end would God interfere? Should he prevents kids from getting bullied, should he prevent everyone from stealing so much so we don't even need cops, does he set our wages for work, does he command then all of us what to do in life, why or why not? If God was interfering like crazy, what would be the limit.
Obviously sending Messengers time to time, or appointing guides or guiding in the unseen journey or revealing words from himself to humanity, serves an important and vital purpose in the design of the system.
To me, we do need God's guidance and interference, but it cannot be guidance by compulsion or force or the reward/merit would be meaningless, and the lovers of God would have little way of showing devotion.