RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 12, 2019 at 10:49 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2019 at 10:49 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Quote:Being helpful is good.
Being harmful or cruel is bad.
Being kind is good.
Being honest is good, being dishonest is bad.
To be loving is good, being hateful is bad.
This comes across as highly problematic.
Stealing a wallet filled with cash is dishonest and is therefore bad. But suppose the original owner of the cash intended to use it to finance a murder or arrange to have sex with a child, or some other despicable act. The theft of the wallet thus prevents crime and is therefore good. How, in this instance, is dishonesty bad?
If being helpful is good, then all German citizens who were accessories to the Holocaust were being good, as they were 'helpful' to the Party in (among other things), rounding up Jews.
And so on.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson