(December 10, 2020 at 12:45 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: -and to smooth rough edges. It may, in fact, work that way. If there are right and/or wrong answers to moral questions it's conceivable that a given individuals moral standards are universal. Universally normative, mind, not universally descriptive. What is and what should be. What we do and what we should do. This is precisely the contention made in the case of a god.
Gods decisions and acts and nature are universally normative...even if those acts and those decisions and that nature are not universally descriptive. The great tragedy, as far as christianity is concerned, is the gulf of difference between what is, and what a christian asserts should be.
I agree.
Unfortunately, it is people who speak for the absentee un-proven god.
Religions are basically created to appease our insecurity and tribal needs, a demand by our selfish gene. Be it king or god leading that tribe, our instincts is to kiss his ass as we should all be driven to be the fittest and should all want to replace him or her as the fittest.
Sheeple are people who are acknowledging that they are rank and file and not the fittest who are still striving to lead.
You and I are still striving. More should do the same.
Regards
DL
