Replacing Religious Morality

[henryp]

1) So you're basically saying "That's just like your opinion, man" to an omnipotent all-powerful being? This God, as creator of existence, would have some experience creating laws. Like the laws of science and mathematics. Perhaps those are just subjective opinions on how numbers should work in this universe, but as folks restricted to this universe, I think we can treat those laws for all intensive purposes as absolutes? But more importantly, I think it's about assigning the same limitations our opinions/perspectives have to an all-powerful omnipotent being.

Yes.

2) What's on the scorecard? How do you tally up who did it better? When I die, am I less dead if I saved orphans instead of overdosing on smack?

Look into the morality threads in philosophy forum for many views on the subject.

3) I don't worry to much about semantics. I have a good time playing the Xbox. Pleasure, happiness, whatever. I'm indifferent towards people in the Philippines dying. Therefore, to me, I should worry about my Xbox more than the Philippines. That seems pretty ironclad to me.

The failure to understand the difference means the difference between a productive life and a hedonistic one.

Helping an Orphan is 4000 points, but beating Super Mario 3 is only 340? It's silly (to me). Now you could make an argument that you think I'd find living a productive life more enjoyable than a hedonistic life, but I suspect that's just projecting your own made up belief system onto others. And you aren't even an allpowerful omnipotent super being.

When you said yes, (to the first part) do you believe the laws of mathematics are subjective, because they were made up by God? That's an interesting position. I still think it's underestimating the nature of such a being, and I'm not sure it would change anything, but an interesting idea.