(July 29, 2012 at 1:27 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(July 29, 2012 at 12:47 am)CliveStaples Wrote: Suppose that you're quite an evil person at your core. If God wants you to be honest to yourself, then you must act authentically to who you are at your core.
But I don't think that's right. If you're quite an evil person at your core, wouldn't a good person--divine or otherwise--want you do choose to be different? To care more for others, etc.?
No, that has nothing to do with being honest with oneself. If you are evil, then the honest and good thing to do, would be to recognize you are and then regret it and reform yourself. To listen to your concsious. The dishonest thing to do if you are evil, is to pretend your good and act as if you are.
What if you are evil, but honestly think that you are good? What if someone with an epistemic advantage tells you that your belief is wrong?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
