RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 12, 2019 at 9:44 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2019 at 9:47 am by GrandizerII.)
(August 12, 2019 at 8:09 am)Belaqua Wrote:(August 12, 2019 at 8:02 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If this is a description of God, then goodness exists independent of God and we don't need God to be good.
Dante would say that when you do something good, you are not acting independently of God, you are reflecting his nature and aiming toward him. Whether you know it or not.
(August 12, 2019 at 8:07 am)Grandizer Wrote: Which works quite well without any God (in the meaningful sense of the term).
Euthyphro's dilemma yet to be resolved.
I find that people here often have a very specific idea of what the "meaningful" sense of the term is, which is very different from the view of Augustine or Aquinas or Dante.
All three of them believed in the Christian God of the Bible, not in this vague nebulous Platonic notion of Good that Acrobat professes belief in and refuses to elaborate on, so much so you have to do the elaboration for him (based on what you think he's saying).
lol at Acrobat's "probably accurate" ...