1) Compelling someone to be "selfless" in order to avoid the pains of hell and win the joys of heaven is in no way compelling someone to be selfless! It is the pinnacle of selfishness!
2) It is a brand of moral absolutism that contradicts just about every natural impulse of humanity! Not to mention the tiresome argument that whatever god commands is in-itself "good" simply because god commanded it!
3) Divine command rests heavily on the fact that actions are good in an absolute sense but not in a self-evident sense. It appears to me that an action that was dictated by god would be self-evidently good (i.e. a reward in itself) and that this would make the idea of heaven or hell superfluous. Those who were virtuous would be happy and those who were wicked would be unhappy. I have to thank Aristotle for this argument.
2) It is a brand of moral absolutism that contradicts just about every natural impulse of humanity! Not to mention the tiresome argument that whatever god commands is in-itself "good" simply because god commanded it!
3) Divine command rests heavily on the fact that actions are good in an absolute sense but not in a self-evident sense. It appears to me that an action that was dictated by god would be self-evidently good (i.e. a reward in itself) and that this would make the idea of heaven or hell superfluous. Those who were virtuous would be happy and those who were wicked would be unhappy. I have to thank Aristotle for this argument.
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
