(November 13, 2016 at 3:27 am)Rhythm Wrote:1. Some opinion can be objective, if it is in accordance with reality. Now, nature is real, and that is evident. God is also real, per sound argumentation like the Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas. It is real that man's essence is he able to know the truth and love the good and that God is Truth and Goodness Himself. So it is real that the end of Man is God that is what the definition of morality shows being defined as the standard of good actions. Hence, my opinion here is objective, while atheists whom deny God and are still holding morality are having subjective opinion, for it's an opinion not in accordance with reality.(November 13, 2016 at 1:59 am)theologian Wrote: 1. Morality then is both made and not made in different sense. It is made in the sense of being a means and it is not made in the sense of being an end. That is so, because moral actions depend on nature, and nature is made by God, while the end of moral actions is God Himself, Whom is obviously not made.I think that you're tying your god dick into knots now, when it's probably best left in your pants to begin with. Is all of the above your subjective opinion, or your objective opinion? [1]
Quote:2. I don't understand what you meant with objection of convenience. Care to demonstrate? Further, being unable to change morality is so compatible with relating morality to God as an end, for if God is the end of morality and God is unchanging, then it follows that nothing can change morality.Clearly you don't, since you're fielding yet another post chock full of them. [2]
Quote:3. So, what are you trying to say then?That you need to learn to speak english. You just keep butchering it. [3]
Quote:4. Well, that is simple. Whatever comes solely from the human person are subjective, but whatever comes from God or in God are objective.It's simple, alright.[4]
Quote:5. Care to demonstrate why I believe what I believe regarding morality yet don't know?It's rather the reverse that's lacking. You believe, but don't know, because you cannot demonstrate. [5]
Quote:6. You got it right that you may want to reference the wrongness of sexual abuse to the nature of man and nature of love etc. However, if we further ask, why do you refer the rightness or the wrongness of actions to nature? If there's no God, it will just be an arbitrary choice again. Hence, without God, there could not be an objective moral standard.If you think that rape would only be arbitrarily bad, as a matter of choice, if there were no god...then I see little sense in having a discussion with you about morality. You do not possess moral agency. You merely obey what you believe to be a gods rules. [6]
Quote:7. I think I'm clear here to prove that even if one relates the goodness or the wrongness of an action to the nature, which is objective, the question why it has to be referred to nature, without appealing to God, will make again morality subjective. Hence, if there is no God, then there will be no objective moral standard.You probably think you're right alot of the time. In fact, it could even be a useful heuristic for you. Anytime you start to think that you've proven anything about a god or morality, you should take that as an indication of just how wrong you are. Meanwhile, I'll be over here, in easy possession of my own moral standard that tells me that rape is bad - regardless. [7]
Quote:8. The question begging I was referring doesn't matter anymore, if I am wrong to assume that what you are pointing out is my inconsistency regarding the separation of objective moral standard and God, as what you are really pointing at is that what's the difference regarding explaining morality with or without God. Simple. If there's no God, even appealing to nature will make morality subjective, because one may ask that why appeal to nature and how about not appealing to it. But if there's God, it will be easy to know that what is moral is what makes us keep going to Him Whom is our true end, and so we can appeal to nature objectively, for nature obviously comes from God.You weren't referring to any question begging in the first place. They aren't magic words, you know, lol. If theres no god, you just keep saying. Let me show you how to properly leverage the identification of a logical fallacy. What you have, above, is a textbook appeal to consequences. If there's no god, then so what? Morality would be subjective? So what? [8]
Would rape be any less subjectively bad than it is objectively bad, in your opinion, if it turned out you were just a superstitious cretin? [9]
Quote:No. It's just about whether you hold rape is bad a priori either because it's just an opinion which is subjective by denying God's existence, or by considering that God truly exist and therefore one can easily show how moral standards are objective too.Meh, who cares about god...we're discussing morality? I'm not the one that needs there to be a god for rape to be bad. That's your bag.[10]
5. What is that I can't demonstrate? Please let me know so either I admit I cannot, or I will demonstrate. But, first, of course, let me know what to demonstrate.
6. No, I don't believe that rape being bad is just arbitrary, for I can demonstrate what objective morality is, while for atheists, they believe it to be bad arbitrarily in examining their thinking, for again, the only way to demonstrate that morality is objective is to affirm God's existence first, Whom is the Lawmaker.
7. That's a very good demonstration of the subjective morality of atheists. Now, it's not that I think that I'm always right. I just hold to what reality shows for me to be objective so that in suggesting to others to act morally will not be an imposing of subjective opinion which atheist can't escape doing by denying the reality that there is God, and that he is the objective basis of morality.
(November 13, 2016 at 3:51 am)robvalue Wrote:(November 13, 2016 at 2:49 am)theologian Wrote: Erm... Sexual Abuse will always be immoral, for it is against God's will which is unchanging. So, it is based from God and not based from people.
It is not true that if well being and God's will are the same, then God is entirely irrelevant, for we can argue soundly that the source of well being is God. So, if there's no God, then there's no well being. But, there is God, per sound theistic arguments like the Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas. To deny the conclusions in Five Ways that God exists is to both deny things which are evident, (for the Five Ways starts with the things that are evident), and to deny laws of logic (for the Five Ways utilized valid logical forms).
But who is telling us what is god's will? You are. So if God turned up and said that actually his will is that sexual abuse is moral, what would you do then?[1]
Is he allowed to speak for himself? Because you're far from the only person telling us what god's will is, and when you guys disagree, at least one of you is just making it up.[2]
My position is a lot clearer. God turns up and says "Having sex against someone's will is moral". I'd say, "Please explain how that is". If he had no argument to persuade me, then I'd dismiss him. I don't take moral judgements from anyone. It seems unlikely there is any such argument to be had, but I'm always open to discussion.[3]
What would you say to him? If an atheist can entertain a hypothetical, surely you can.[4]
1. Let us first show if God is really saying that sex abuse is moral. After all, what we are knowing here is whether God is the basis of objective morality, and that can't be known by going in the particular moral standards, just as we cannot figure out by the chess rules alone to know what made the chess rules.
2. I agree that contradiction can't be true. But disagreement among believer doesn't make us all wrong, for believers themselves are not the basis of morality, but God. And, yes, God can speak for Himself, for He have founded the instrument whom will speak for Him, and that is the Catholic Church.
3. Since God created all the created objective things, then without an argument, what He proclaims must be true. It is a contradiction that an all knowing God would be mistaken.
4. Well, I will say to Him that I accept His Word whole heartedly, for He, God, is the Truth Himself.