RE: How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahami...
April 17, 2017 at 1:31 am
(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.
You literally just repeated what Industrial Lad said, in different words.
1. God always does the right thing
2. Because god is morally perfect
3. Because being morally perfect is an attribute of god
4. Therefore he always does the right thing
This is circular reasoning.
“Love is the only bow on Life’s dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
