RE: Questions for theists.
November 10, 2011 at 5:08 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2011 at 5:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
They deemed it to be morally acceptable, and summarily began exterminating people, didn't they? Sounds like it was morally acceptable to me. Thankfully I don't have to agree with what the Nazis deemed morally acceptable, and in this case, many people did not. Enough people to form an army large enough to crush Nazi Germany underfoot. Again, you're assuming that because someone deems something to be morally acceptable that I would believe this to be an objective decision, or that such a thing even exists. I do not. What one group of people feel is morally acceptable is in no way proof of, or a statement of "objective morality".
An argument from ignorance? Perhaps you should google death, the dying prcoess, decomposition, and fairy tales. I've already handled two of them for you. You do appear to be suffering considerable amounts of difficulty with the concept of the final subject. The op has modified his statement to "we don't know if there is an afterlife" which isn't exactly his original statement. Even this new modification is unsatisfying. The minute you begin to describe an afterlife you've begun to make claims that can be criticized. We don't know that Russel's teapot doesn't exist either. What a compelling argument! Strong, positive, falsifiable claims. Why is this so difficult to elicit from the faithful?
"We don't know" isn't some double door that grants anything that can be asserted access into the realm of reality. Nor should one claim that we don't know something that we do, in order to make their assertions seem more plausible, because they don't. It's disingenuous, and you'd know a little about that wouldn't you Stat? "We don't know-......, but, let me tell you what we know about souls, heaven, god, and all the rest" Bullshit. You aren't actually criticizing what we know, you're replacing it with what you wish to believe (because what we do know disagrees with you on a fundamental level) and then assuming the mantle of reason or inquiry. Absolute bullshit.
(yes, I realize that you haven't done this OP, I'm dealing with Statler, who has never seen an opportunity to troll he hasn't taken)
An argument from ignorance? Perhaps you should google death, the dying prcoess, decomposition, and fairy tales. I've already handled two of them for you. You do appear to be suffering considerable amounts of difficulty with the concept of the final subject. The op has modified his statement to "we don't know if there is an afterlife" which isn't exactly his original statement. Even this new modification is unsatisfying. The minute you begin to describe an afterlife you've begun to make claims that can be criticized. We don't know that Russel's teapot doesn't exist either. What a compelling argument! Strong, positive, falsifiable claims. Why is this so difficult to elicit from the faithful?
"We don't know" isn't some double door that grants anything that can be asserted access into the realm of reality. Nor should one claim that we don't know something that we do, in order to make their assertions seem more plausible, because they don't. It's disingenuous, and you'd know a little about that wouldn't you Stat? "We don't know-......, but, let me tell you what we know about souls, heaven, god, and all the rest" Bullshit. You aren't actually criticizing what we know, you're replacing it with what you wish to believe (because what we do know disagrees with you on a fundamental level) and then assuming the mantle of reason or inquiry. Absolute bullshit.
(yes, I realize that you haven't done this OP, I'm dealing with Statler, who has never seen an opportunity to troll he hasn't taken)
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