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How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahamic religions?

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How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahamic religions?
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RE: How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahami...
April 14, 2017 at 1:18 pm
(April 14, 2017 at 1:05 pm)SteveII Wrote:
(April 14, 2017 at 11:53 am)Industrial Lad Wrote: So basically god did the right thing because he always does the right thing because he's god. Like Li'l Bush. "Circular reasoning. Means it works."

No, God does the right thing because one of his attributes is that he is morally perfect. Being an attribute of God, there is no choice to be made (it is necessarily so), so no circular reasoning or Euthyphro dilemma.

But claiming you know he is morally perfect is basically the same thing.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing."  - Samuel Porter Putnam
 
           

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RE: How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahami... - by Harry Nevis - April 14, 2017 at 1:18 pm

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