RE: Dear God
June 6, 2017 at 12:43 pm
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2017 at 12:48 pm by John V.)
(June 5, 2017 at 5:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 5, 2017 at 3:10 pm)alpha male Wrote: No, lots of people are inspired to do good by God.
Which is a pretty specious argument unless all people are inspired to do good by God. Clearly, some are not.
Boru
No, it's an appropriate argument against the claim that "violence is all that you can inspire."
(June 6, 2017 at 9:27 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:(June 5, 2017 at 3:10 pm)alpha male Wrote: No, lots of people are inspired to do good by God.
By the idea of god, maybe. By the fear of god. Or by the wanting of a reward of heaven. But not an actual god.
And you jump in on that regarding the good inspired by religion, but not the violence inspired religion, because...?
Oh yeah, if there is no god, then religions are man-made, but you guys want to somehow believe that deep down people are good, but they created religions, which are evil.
(June 6, 2017 at 9:38 am)vorlon13 Wrote: sometimes those good works come with strings attached
Yes, and?
Quote:and if the motivation for doing them is a 'big payoff' later of some sort, rather than from an altruistic bent . . .
Then religion created good where it otherwise wouldn't have been.
