RE: Taliban stop female Afghan students leaving country to study in Dubai
August 30, 2023 at 10:48 am
So:
a) You think moral facts can be demonstrated to be true
b) You think general consensus is enough to make something an objective moral truth
I find those very strange views, and I suspect you don't know what is meant by an objective moral truth.
As for the burden of proof regarding that religious teaching makes it more likely that religious believers will behave accordingly, I simply state what I stated elsewhere to you:
My case that Islamic/Qur'anic teaching makes it more likely that Muslims will behave in accordance with that teaching I'd say was self-evident, though it could be backed up by the amazingly close correspondence between Islamic teachings and behaviour by Muslims and Islamic societies and asking Muslims whether they do things because Allah tells them. In my personal chats with Muslims all did things explicitly because of Islamic teachings.
If you don't accept that there's a self-evident connection between religious dogmas and religious behaviour, even in the face of history, current politics, and common sense; or if you feel the need to stretch your defense of Islamic teachings on GM to asking me to provide survey evidence that most Muslims say that their behaviour is affected by Islamic teaching, then I simply believe you are being quite unreasonable.
a) You think moral facts can be demonstrated to be true
b) You think general consensus is enough to make something an objective moral truth
I find those very strange views, and I suspect you don't know what is meant by an objective moral truth.
As for the burden of proof regarding that religious teaching makes it more likely that religious believers will behave accordingly, I simply state what I stated elsewhere to you:
My case that Islamic/Qur'anic teaching makes it more likely that Muslims will behave in accordance with that teaching I'd say was self-evident, though it could be backed up by the amazingly close correspondence between Islamic teachings and behaviour by Muslims and Islamic societies and asking Muslims whether they do things because Allah tells them. In my personal chats with Muslims all did things explicitly because of Islamic teachings.
If you don't accept that there's a self-evident connection between religious dogmas and religious behaviour, even in the face of history, current politics, and common sense; or if you feel the need to stretch your defense of Islamic teachings on GM to asking me to provide survey evidence that most Muslims say that their behaviour is affected by Islamic teaching, then I simply believe you are being quite unreasonable.
