RE: How much pain can atheists withstand ?
May 12, 2023 at 2:28 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2023 at 2:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 12, 2023 at 2:20 pm)The End of Atheism Wrote:If morality were an issue of your god hereby decreeing this or that, then morality would, by definition, be subjective.(May 12, 2023 at 2:13 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Another one that just doesn't know better. Moralities that come from gods (or any other subject) are, by definition, subjective.
Furthermore, having access to all facts would not by itself satisfy the criteria of a moral actor. I could have access to all the facts about a poison and it's effect on people, and that wouldn't make my poisoning someone objectively moral. For there to be an objective morality there must be moral facts. For a competent actor to be deemed moral it must also adhere to whatever those facts are.
The word God generally entails other attributes such as omnibenevolence, so God isn't any subject. Morality coming from a worship-worthy God certainly amounts to objective morality. Put differently : it's indistiguinshable from objective morality. God prescribing X or X being objectively good is the same thing.
I think it's a simple issue of crossed wires. This is the type of morality that you believe exists. You think it's objectively true that morality is divinely subjective.
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