(November 3, 2012 at 7:34 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote:(November 3, 2012 at 7:27 pm)Stimbo Wrote: What if the "don't kill" injunction conflicted with biblical principles? Would you still stand by your position of "submit[ting] to authority unless it conflicts with Biblical truth"?
You're talking about the euthyphro dilemma.
No I'm not, I'm not keen on herrings at the best of times and red ones even less. I'll restate the question:
What if what is commanded in your holy book is in direct conflict with societal considerations? Specifically with regard to the original question, suppose your god via your book commanded you to kill for whatever reason, say stoning adulteres to death, yet society didn't let you (which it doesn't). To whom do you pledge your allegiance?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
