RE: My views on objective morality
March 11, 2016 at 9:53 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2016 at 9:54 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 11, 2016 at 9:44 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(March 11, 2016 at 8:30 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Your parents are doing this because they ultimately see it as being in your best interest, and they, being your parents, have both the liberty and the duty to decide for you in those cases. Not so with God. I am not God's child and his interests are not my own.
According to Christian doctrine, you are God's child and he is very much concerned about your interests. That's why the analogy works.
Here's another analogy. God has given a child a butterknife, pointed out an electrical socket, and said, "Don't put that knife in that hole." But then, because he loves the child so much, he doesn't bother covering it or stopping the kid when he's about to put the knife in the socket, because-- you know-- the kid has to be free to act on his own.
But the difference between God and any other parent is that after the kid sticks the knife in the socket and dies, God will burn him in hellfire for all eternity, cuz if you don't torture him forever and ever until the end of time, he won't learn nuthin'.
Yep. Sounds pretty moral to me.