Replacing Religious Morality

[genkaus]

No, Not irrelevant. You cannot shrug this idea off and still be talking God.

Yes I can. And I do.

If you lock me in a box and tell me that every time I push a button I get a candy, it would be true that my reality would be subject to your whims, but not mine. Now, if you remain true to your word, my objective truth becomes what you told me. If I press the button one day and I do not get my m&m's my objective truth begins to become informed on the reality you have placed me in, and may or may not change. I may come up with some subjective conclusions: you are a liar and unreliable. But the objective truth remain with you.
I continue to inform my truth based on my experience, but I have no control over it, and any opinions that I come to are purely based on the experience in the reality you have set up for me.

If your reality was truly subject to my whims then your reality would be subjective. The fact that it is subject to my whims and not yours does not magically make it objective. The truth, in that case, is not objective.

However, the fact is, even if I put you in a box with the candy button, your reality is still not subject to my whims. I cannot change the nature of the box simply on a whim - I have to work in order to do so - and even then, I cannot change it any whimsical way, only in limited ones. That's what makes your reality in the box objective.

God has given us more than a button to push. And for us to pretend that we can understand every decision that is made by an omnipotent being is wildly unreasonable.

You are the one who keeps insisting that god is capable of changing the nature of the box and the buttons on a whim.

Where does human reason come from? Are you saying that there is more to brain function than chemical reactions and electrical impulses?

You mean the capacity for reason? And yes, brain function is more than chamocal reactions in the same way a computer program is more than electrical pulses.

If morality comes from a psychologist, we are all in freud a lot of trouble.

Why?