RE: Atheism and morality
July 4, 2013 at 1:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2013 at 1:50 pm by Inigo.)
(July 4, 2013 at 1:07 pm)LostLocke Wrote: This just gets more fun as time passes.
Nothing like watching a 'philosopher' paint themselves into a corner.
I'm not in a corner. Do you get the impression I'm having any difficulty answering anyone's concerns/objections? Nobody has raised any serious concerns yet. I'm just painting. I'm right by the door, painting away. No problems.
(July 4, 2013 at 1:45 pm)whateverist Wrote:(July 4, 2013 at 1:21 pm)Inigo Wrote: Morality is the instructions and favourings of a god.
Can this god's instructions and favourings change over time? Well of course they can. Doesn't mean they have - but they can. Why think otherwise? what can't change is the god's resolve to harm the interests of those who do not do as she instructs at any given time. But what she instructs us to do can alter, for her tastes may change.
You ask 'how can this be?' Well, I've just explained. Note: I am not claiming this has happened. If morality exists then it appears very stable over time. But it may not be fixed. Perhaps it is, but it may not be. I see no reason to think it must be fixed. Again, I am not saying it has changed. I am just saying it is capable of changing.
To be honest, aren't you just pulling all this crap out of your ass and then weaving a story around it. You challenge us to respond to your 'argument' but since your argument revolves around something whose existence is fundamentally in question, of course there is no way to challenge your shit. Here it is better to just note how full of shit you are, and move on. No one can win an argument over the nature of a thing which likely does not exist but which you seem to make up as you go.
You don't refute a position by calling its proponent a shit. And that's all you're doing.