[split] Are Questions About God Important?

[SimpleCaveman]

No, not ayn rands objectivism.  Moral objectivism.  The notion that moral statements purport to report facts and insomuch as they accurately report those facts they should be treated like any other statement that purports to report a fact and accurately reports it.  The way I sue moral statements, "the sun came up" and "it's bad to curbstomp infants" are true in exactly the same way and should be treated as such.  

I'm also..generally, drinking beer, and a fair amount of my style is just that, just the way I learned to speak around the people I've spent most my life with.  It's when I'm super nice and polite that I've got -really- shitty things in mind.  For me, "Fuck you guy!" is a tender greeting to a friend you haven't seen in awhile.

Fair enough. Thank you for the explanation. I have to go. I’ll follow up on the other statements later. I think our discussion on purpose, chance, etc. is very interesting.