RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
June 27, 2022 at 8:35 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2022 at 8:41 am by The Grand Nudger.)
A misconception. Not only does christianity not say anything about objective moral values, it espouses subjective and relative moral value. People, as a rule though - just how we live and act, tend to believe that there are - and insomuch as a person might also be a christian, they mistakenly conclude that their gods subjective demands or their societies relative demands are those objective moral values, or at least concordant with them.
This, in my experience, when they communicate it, also tends to misinform the irreligious, who begin to believe that whatever happens to fall from the lips of the afflicted -is- whatever objective moral value is supposed to be, and because they don't believe in the ghost, consign the set to the same place as the fairy who's supposed to have said this or that. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about when I say that theism doesn't just rot the theists brain. That it's detrimental to more than just the people who positively assert it. The notion of the headman - whether human or god, making the rules as they see fit..is the antithesis of objective moral value. A direct rejection of the set.
You could conceivably maximize your loyal value to the headman without moving the moral meter one iota - or even drive the moral meter into the dirt seeking out it's approval.
This, in my experience, when they communicate it, also tends to misinform the irreligious, who begin to believe that whatever happens to fall from the lips of the afflicted -is- whatever objective moral value is supposed to be, and because they don't believe in the ghost, consign the set to the same place as the fairy who's supposed to have said this or that. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about when I say that theism doesn't just rot the theists brain. That it's detrimental to more than just the people who positively assert it. The notion of the headman - whether human or god, making the rules as they see fit..is the antithesis of objective moral value. A direct rejection of the set.
You could conceivably maximize your loyal value to the headman without moving the moral meter one iota - or even drive the moral meter into the dirt seeking out it's approval.
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