RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
November 7, 2017 at 2:53 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2017 at 2:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 7, 2017 at 2:44 pm)Whateverist Wrote: If I get zapped I won't be looking up to find the god that did it, I'll definitely be scanning the area for his overly helpful followers.
Yup, but our lack of belief in that god should not be taken as a way to avoid the reality that the same god condones that sort of thing time and time again. If such a god did exist, that;s what it thinks is right. That;s the heart of what many people..yourself to some extent and myself from my wig to my shoebuckle...find abhorrent about the very idea of god.
Here is a creature that punishes the most and the most severely for it's subjective moral appraisal, while allowing those who run afoul of it's objective moral appraisals to skate on their actions....by killing some jew.
This is a complete inversion of goodness and justice , of morality, as it's come to be seen. Even the faithful have to rationalize the whole story away as something else entirely.
Quote:As a practical endeavor, morality can be argued objectively based on shared valuations.Regardless of whether or not you and I share a valuation, rape is what it is. This is the objectivity being refered to in objective morality. Not that we share a valuation, but that any agreement or disagreement between us is not with reference to what is being observed. It;s neither of our opinions that rape is harmful. It isn't made more or less so by us thinking that it is or isn't, or by one of us thinking that it is and the other thinking that it isn't. It;s important to note that, otherwise we'll end up with pages and pages of the shared opinion trap, lol.
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