RE: Christians, what is your VERY BEST arguments for the existence of God?
March 27, 2010 at 1:43 pm
I didn't think you were referring to anyone in particular. I was talking about my reasons for being atheist because I can't speak for all atheists.
There are no 'moral absolutes'. I tried explaining this to you earlier about how if you were born elsewhere your 'moral absolutes' would be different. If moral absolutes can be different depending on where you are born, they aren't absolute. Moral absolutes seems to mean morals that are established or 'vaguely referenced' by very old text that is said to be the word of a deity through humans and if that is the case then then Christian morals are just as absolute as Muslim morals. I don't know why Christians think they get their morals from the Bible. The Bible says that Christians are immune to snake poison and that you should stone homosexuals. I'm pretty sure there are even details about how to deal with rape victims in the Bible that are absurd: the victim must be paid by the suspect and the suspect and victim must get married (if i recall correctly).
"we are inherently good, but we become corrupted by the evils of society." jean-jacques rousseau
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion." Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate
There are no 'moral absolutes'. I tried explaining this to you earlier about how if you were born elsewhere your 'moral absolutes' would be different. If moral absolutes can be different depending on where you are born, they aren't absolute. Moral absolutes seems to mean morals that are established or 'vaguely referenced' by very old text that is said to be the word of a deity through humans and if that is the case then then Christian morals are just as absolute as Muslim morals. I don't know why Christians think they get their morals from the Bible. The Bible says that Christians are immune to snake poison and that you should stone homosexuals. I'm pretty sure there are even details about how to deal with rape victims in the Bible that are absurd: the victim must be paid by the suspect and the suspect and victim must get married (if i recall correctly).
"we are inherently good, but we become corrupted by the evils of society." jean-jacques rousseau
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion." Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate
