RE: Is Belief in God ethical?
October 28, 2018 at 12:45 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2018 at 12:47 pm by Mystic.)
(October 28, 2018 at 12:42 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Mk... please... less dogma, more epistemology/ethics. If you willfully deny the truth, are you morally responsible for that? (In your case I'd recommend considering the argument apart from whether God exists or not.)
Building on conjecture is condemned. We have a duty towards holding to truth individually and collectively. If God isn't known, it's wrong to believe in Him. If a religion doesn't have proofs, it's wrong to believe in it.
In fact, anything we believe in and collectively unite on (any dogma), has to have proof.
And we especially have to have proof of what morality is. We can't just say it's a biological program in the mind and get away with it, by conjecture.
Whatever we unite on, there has to be no doubt concerning it, and it has to be build on solid proofs.
As for as lying to yourself, if you convince yourself you know something you don't, truth becomes on par with falsehood, and you are bound to be confused. Aside from collectively needing to unite on truth, it's wrong individually to confuse yourself between what you know and what you don't.
