(March 14, 2016 at 8:09 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:(March 14, 2016 at 4:24 am)robvalue Wrote: This is another way of presenting the problem with "objectively morality" based on god. It probably has a name, but let's call it Probvalue's dilemma
Would you do absolutely anything god told you to do?
If no, your morality is not based solely on God.
If yes, you're a highly dangerous person who could turn into a mass murderer after having a hallucination.
I suspect that most people who say "yes" are actually thinking "no", but they realize that saying "no" will invalidate their beliefs. Only those who are prepared to utterly dispense with their humanity would follow any command blindly.
Or they will say "God would never ASK me to do anything immoral like kill someone," which is just them projecting their own subjective feelings onto God.
That's the thing though, they get to do that. All religious people only believe in their own specific version of God. If they find out God doesn't match up to it then he's not the god they've been worshipping. I remember saying that a lot to other Christians growing up "not my God".
I'll have faith in God so long as he matches up with my own standards for the bare minimum of what a God must be. If not then he's not my god and I'm not interested.
It actually makes sense to me and it seems the smartest way to be religious.
