Questions For You Non Believers

[Kirbmarc]

Well the RCC decided whether or not you were allowed to get a divorce at the time. Had they been willing to compromise, or had the state had the power and not the church, perhaps they would have set back the reformation movement for some time?

You carefully dodged my point. I can't see how the Anglican Church can be against divorce if it was founded because a man wanted to divorce.
Of course the RCC is just as hypocrite. They're agains divorce unless they're the ones who regulate it (for a fee).

No, all sin is primarily against God and not others. Yes sins can also affect other people, but that's just the nature of sin.

And this is why I think that your moral system is skewed. This concept of "sin" basically tells you that your morality doesn't depend on the consequences of your actions on your victims, but on what offends or doesn't offend your god.

So if your god said that murder and rape were OK, you would agree with him. Actually, he did that, according to the Old Testament. You (thankfully) choose to ignore it when it comes to stoning adulterers or people who work on Saturday.

The truth, Daniel, is that your morality isn't based on the Bible (it couldn't be: the Bible is full of contradicctions). It's based on your personal beliefs, and you carefully cherry pick the parts of the Bible that seem to agree with you.

Your morality, if anything, it's more subjective than the secular morality, but you want it to objective. You construct your moral compass according to what your hypothetical god (which isn't the god of the Bible, but the god of your interpretation) and assume he's the supreme moral authority; secular morality is constructed on preserving the well-being and respecting the choices of other human beings, and there is no ultimate moral authority.

Yes, secular morality is subjective to a degree, but so is yours. At least with secular morality you don't have to pretend that your instincts or decisons are objective.