(October 15, 2018 at 12:03 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(October 15, 2018 at 11:57 am)wyzas Wrote: Morality exists on a sliding scale.
That help?
True, but morality is guidance through out stages, so it must recognized, not made up by us.
And if it's recognized, it's objective, although of various stages, not created by subjectivity.
And it's a guidance, it must truly a guidance, and not something that can lead correctly or incorrectly, and that there is no way to discern truth of it from falsehood.
Because warped morality is the cause of all oppression and chaos, it's people warping morality and justifying evil through it.
Guidance to be reliable, must have not only a reliable source (God) but a reliable means (Kings like Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Isaac, etc).
“Matthew 26:52” Wrote:”Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.”
And yet, the reason why this erstwhile fisherman had a sword to begin with was because Jesus told them
”Luke 22:36b”” Wrote:… and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
So apparently there’s time to put away your sword and a time to take it up. And since god doesn’t speak to us in an audible voice, it’s up to each person to decide what the almighty wants him to do in any situation. The bible is full of this kind of equivocation. Why reject subjective morality when your “source” offers nothing but?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
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I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.