RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 9, 2019 at 10:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2019 at 10:50 pm by GrandizerII.)
(August 9, 2019 at 10:13 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(August 9, 2019 at 9:27 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Sure, and the point that I’m trying (and failing, apparently, lol) to make is that when push comes to shove, Acrobat admits that he just “knows” what good is; he just “sees” good, like he can see the sun. In other words, he’s making subjective moral judgements about what he thinks is good. And yes, even if he can demonstrate that some maximal or perfect good exists, it doesn’t necessarily follow that that “good” is any kind of god.
I don’t see statements lik holocaust is immoral/bad, or torturing innocent babies just for fun is wrong as subjective, but you do?
In my view if someone claimed the holocaust was good, they would be wrong, just like someone said the earth is flat. But you disagree?
Intuitively, when people really contemplate what makes the holocaust (or any moral act, for that matter) wrong, they often take into account the nature of the act itself, not what deity out there dictates or determines or substantiates it. The former is what lends moral credibility. "God says so" is just a stock statement many theists just "autobotically" say when they can't be arsed to contemplate what is it that really makes it so.