RE: Conscience and the Moral Argument as Evidence for the Goodness of God.
June 15, 2023 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2023 at 12:09 am by Belacqua.)
(June 15, 2023 at 6:52 pm)Astreja Wrote:(June 15, 2023 at 3:47 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: The question: was infanticide ok just because it was legal in those societies?
Much better questions:
Was it moral for the god of the Bible to toss Adam and Eve out of Eden for disobeying a command despite the fact that at the time of disobedience they did not yet possess the moral knowledge to know that disobedience was bad?
How about the Noachide flood? Is it morally acceptable to drown millions of living beings because of a perception that everything has somehow turned evil, even the kittens and bunny rabbits and puppies?
What about David's infant son? WTF was going on there? Why kill the baby and not the adulterous, murderous David?
Oh, and that Jesus nonsense too. How is it even possible for one person to pay another person's moral debt? As I see it, anyone who willing accedes to substitutionary atonement, letting Jesus pay their alleged (and allegedly unpayable) debt, has taken the real "Mark of the Beast."
No, Mr. Xavier. Don't go lecturing us about morality when you practice a grossly immoral creed.
A little earlier, you told me "morality varies too much from culture to culture to be based on an objective standard."
So if the culture of the Old Testament says that it is acceptable to drown bunny rabbits, do you have any objective reason to say that they're wrong? Wouldn't the morality of the time be correct for the time, although for us it may be unpalatable?
It sounds as though you do have some standard by which you judge morals from other times and places. Otherwise you'd have to say "when they did it, it was moral."
