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Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong?
RE: Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong?
(August 19, 2013 at 6:36 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Disc, did you notice that those standards that you compared god to are all man made?
The atomic clock... why is a day made of 24 equal parts?
The mile... why so many feet?
The tonne... why do many pounds?
Etc.

Now your god... why so many morals?
Why is it that other gods, originating in other parts of the planet, sport morals somewhat different from yours?
The way I see it, it looks a lot like your God's "absolute" morals are just as man made as all the other standards.
How do you make a standard?

The following is taken from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, Book 1, Chapter 1:

"I know that some people say the idea of a Law of Nature or decent behaviour known to all men is unsound, because different civilisations and different ages have had quite different moralities.
But this is not true. There have been differences between their moralities, but these have never amounted to anything like a total difference. If anyone will take the trouble to compare the moral teaching of, say, the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Greeks and Romans, what will really strike him will be how very like they are to each other and to our own. Some of the evidence for this I have put together in the appendix of another book called The Abolition of Man; but for our present purpose I need only ask the reader to think what a totally different morality would mean. Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five. Men have differed as regards what people you ought to be unselfish to-whether it was only your own family, or your fellow countrymen, or everyone. But they have always agreed that you ought not to put yourself first. Selfishness has never been admired. Men have differed as to whether you should have one wife or four. But they have always agreed that you must not simply have any woman you liked."
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RE: Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong? - by discipulus - August 19, 2013 at 7:03 pm

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