(December 19, 2013 at 5:53 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(December 18, 2013 at 8:37 am)feeling Wrote: All right then what is the goal? Enlighten me oh wise one.Oh the sarcasm. It burns!
I'm not God. My sense of morality is based on emotion: the things that disturb me, and which I wish to avoid, and the things which please me, and which I wish to magnify.
However, morality is about right behavior or right views, and rightness implies a goal. IF there is a God, and IF that God's goals are different than ours then what we call evil based on our biological reactions to things as (very) temporary beings, and what God would call evil, based on a knowledge of all the universe and an immortal view on time, could conceivably be very different. Demanding that an actually-existent God subscribe to OUR sense of what is moral or just doesn't make sense in that context.
Personally, I suspect that IF there some kind of God or Deity, it has very little concern with how our individual lives play out, and that morality is therefore a purely human construct; I very much doubt that anything I do today will affect how the universe unfolds in any important way. But that's not a logical argument, just a personal hunch.
Then it's a malevolent god.
