RE: Dilemma for theists!
March 30, 2012 at 8:11 am
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2012 at 8:11 am by Faith No More.)
C Roed Wrote:And why would you do good on your own? To be unselfish so you might be more thoroughly selfish or because it makes you feel good. Tell me this increased sense of morality discovered with the purest intentions and deepest insight. BTW, a christian morality describe by Jesus and accepted by me is turn the cheek, if somebody takes your robe, give them your cloak too. Give away all your possessions and love everyone. This morality is quite different.
I do good on my own out of an understanding that it makes people feel better. I admit that makes me feel better too, but that is quite different from only doing good because I believe it will procure a place in paradise for my eternal soul.
Give away all your posessions, huh? I assume you have done this then?
C Rod Wrote:Are they still not punished for either crimes? Does the severity of the punishment correct the criminal's behavior?
I'm not sure what this has to do with our intentions being relevant to the moral standing of our actions.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell