RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
November 7, 2017 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2017 at 12:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 7, 2017 at 11:34 pm)pool the matey Wrote: Is killing innocents morally permissible? No? Then why do you fund bombings that kill innocents?... The problem with "what we normals acknowledge as morally permissible or not" is it's bendable because we created it. One minute it's not okay to murder innocent babies, next minute it is, but if you look at objective morality it can't change for our purpose, it's the same from the beginning of time to the end of time because that's what God intended for us so you can't really "bend the rules" because the rules is God's will and we don't get to change God's will, in the other case ("what we normals acknowledge as morally permissible or not") it is not God's will it is OUR will ie, it's humans will and humans are subject to evil, so by effect what we acknowledge as morally permissible can also change and it can also change for the worse.
Edit: Also a answer for Mr.Wizard that asked a question earlier
The more you tell me about god and his rules and intentions the more you express a subjective moral framework. It doesn;t matter whether or not he changes his mind...that just makes it an eternally inflexible subjective morality.
An objective morality, on the other hand..would -have- to change if some previously unknown and relevant fact came to light.
In any case, your god kills innocents with a certain amount of enthusiasm.
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