(October 17, 2013 at 9:04 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: See the problem with de-nihilists, is this. They trust their conscience, but not its source. They form ethical systems based on reason without accepting the basis of the world's rational order.
What? That isn't intelligible to me. Elaborate please?
Quote:Its been 14 pages of "works for me" without any reflection on why it works. Nihilism is the logical conclusion of atheism. De-nilhism is the refusing to face that conclusion.
To say that nihilism is logically derived from atheism being true is just an assertion. It is quite easy to see how a dejected nihilism could be logically concluded from your brand of theism:
Say you convinced me that God must indeed exist, and your God (and understanding of him) in particular. Oh boy. Now I either have to choose to be infinitely tortured in fire and sulphur or spend eternity with a being I find repugnant and incredibly immoral. A being that would let its 'mercy' be so easily trumped by its vanity.
You can't get any more dejectedly nihilistic as that.
And no, I'm not a nihilist in case you were wondering, though nor am I apposed to some forms of nihilism, even if I don't hold to them.
