RE: Theistic Inclinations
May 11, 2017 at 2:58 pm
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2017 at 3:02 pm by bennyboy.)
(May 11, 2017 at 11:09 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: A common topic on AF is how much evidence is required to believe in God. I think it is pretty clear that for the overwhelming majority of AF members, no amount of evidence would be sufficient. As far as I’m concerned, God is not as hidden as they suggest. Everyone knows that some things are right and some things are wrong. It takes a special effort to believe in moral relativism. Everyone senses the transcendent in things of great beauty. It takes a special effort to attribute those feelings to just physiological responses.Special effort? Really?
We are social animals with a capacity for feeling and the ability to express ideas verbally. When two people discuss how they feel about things in such a way that behavioral rules are introduced, you have morality.
A: I have such a strong feeling about my children. The idea that they might be hurt just terrifies me!
B: Me too! And you know what, we can pretty easily see that all of our friends feel the same way about THEIR kids.
A: Okay, let's make a rule-- no hurting kids, because nobody likes that.
B: Agreed. And, since we're on the subject of things that bother us. . . I don't like the way you're looking at my wife!
At no part in this process did a magi-special Sky Daddy have to enter the picture and set anybody straight. People have feelings, verbalize them, and then come to some mutual sense of what is right or wrong.
