(October 4, 2009 at 9:03 am)Arcanus Wrote:(October 4, 2009 at 8:36 am)amw79 Wrote: I agree that my view is not a given, but entirely disagree that that it's not obvious to all.
Something is obvious to all only when it is self-evident. And your view ("this dogma is obviously invented with the sole aim of making Christianity the only game in town") is not self-evident; i.e., the evidence for that proposition comes from somewhere other than that proposition itself. It is obvious to those who share your view. For those who do not share your view, it is not obvious.
If morality is defined by the nature and will of God, then that which is contrary to the nature and will of God is by definition wicked or bad. You can disagree that morality is so defined, but P is not somehow magically refuted by the power of you rejecting P, nor by the power of you asserting ¬P. Sorry.
Once again, you've partially quoted me without addressing the main point about the self-made set-up of the Christian moral view as indispensible. I'll take it this is an oversight as opposed to an example of your Christian 'blind-spot'. Once again, regardless of the validity of the Christian view of morality, would you even consider that this view could be seen as self-serving?
And simply because you state "morality is defined by the nature and will of God", does not make it so.
Because you assert P (where P = pretentiousness), does not make P so.
