(October 10, 2009 at 12:43 pm)ecolox Wrote: Some people say that the existence of evil means that God is immoral, but why would an immoral god allow for the existence of good?
A truly 100% Benevolent all-loving God would of course allow the moral, but why would he also allow so much immorality?
This can be easily explained without God. Morality is subjective. From those who aren't sadistic etc, from most of us: Killing and raping, etc, is evil, is wrong. From a highly Evil person's perspective however, they might not be. Or he might just have no problem with committing what most people consider Evil.
We all have feelings, most decent people think killing and raping is wrong. But not everyone: Morality is subjective. We as a species survive better if on the whole we are good to each other though. This can be explained by evolution you see. And even if it was not, there's still no evidence of a creator anyway.
Quote:If God does exist then we have a reason to seriously consider good and evil and how we conduct our lives. If He doesn't, then we don't - because ultimately there would be no justice (e.g. if you can get away with it, then why not do it?).
Why not do it? Because we care? Are you saying that if you didn't believe in God...you wouldn't care?
If there are no objective morals, as I don't believe there are, and no God, as I don't believe there is: Then I still care about people, because thankfully, I'm a caring person.
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