RE: Atheism and morality
July 10, 2013 at 1:25 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2013 at 1:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 10, 2013 at 1:19 pm)Inigo Wrote: No, I refer to instructions that have inescapable rational authority as 'moral' instructions. I have argued that only the instructions of a god would have those features and therefore that morality presupposes a god.No one "must" do any such thing. Do your own work. It's already been pointed out to you all the ways one might contest any premise or assertion in your argument, or how one could accept a premise and still not end up with a god multiple times. That's what you'll have to acknowledge and deal with to keep this a two way convo. Otherwise you're just repeating yourself, talking -at- people and not -with- them. If we could force something to be so by brute force of droning the world might be a very different place.
You must either show me to be mistaken about that or else make sure that you never use the term 'morality' to refer to instructions that have inescapable rational authority. Nothing stops you doing that and I don't mind in the least if you do.
To recap, just in case.
You've been unable to attach any measure of truth or accuracy to the premise or assertions of the first argument. It seems to be an attempt at argument by definition. Not that this matters, as one can accept the premise and god does not follow. Your second argument hinges upon all of the blunders and incompetence in the first, as such it's transparent as a means to sweep your inability to to form this "powerful" moral argument under the rug.
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