RE: Biblical Inerrancy - mandatory to be Christian?
March 26, 2013 at 11:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2013 at 11:48 pm by Darkstar.)
(March 26, 2013 at 11:35 pm)jstrodel Wrote: I think you are a cool dude, as much as I disagree with your ideological approach to atheist demographics and your failure to discern the inherent contradiction between nihilism/moral relativism and family values.I understand why you think there is a contradiction, I simply disagree.
(March 26, 2013 at 11:17 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Yes, I absolute want to call into question the concept of an "atheist family". How can an atheist be a good father? How can they teach their children the right way to live if they are responsible for making up the right way to live? This is perverted and evil.And...what is the correct way? Do you know the answer? You said some time ago that we probably have similar views on morals, so why is it assumed that I cannot come to justifiable conclusions about morals?
Fathers are supposed to teach their kids how to live.
While it is true that people are ultimately responsible for finding the right way to live, that doesn't mean that some morals aren't demonstrably superior to others. Unless I am mistaken, the only snag we caught on was that you rejected my support for the value of human life as being a presupposition.
I am curious, though, as to what exactly the objective morals you claim god gave us are. I have heard of god given morals many times, but I assume by this you don't mean the stoning of punk teenagers.
(March 26, 2013 at 11:17 pm)jstrodel Wrote: They didn't have nuclear weapons in the Old TestamentThey had god, much worse. Just ask the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.

(March 26, 2013 at 11:17 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Also, they were more strict about things like money lending and the system of redistribution of wealth and social development was much more advanced than it is today.Define "advanced".
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.