(March 14, 2014 at 4:30 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I love the fact that people assume their ability to reason is responsible for every other idea and belief they hold... except morality. On that we must appeal to authority!
Honestly, I suspect that the whole Moral Argument is not really intended as an argument for their god as much as a way for theists to feel smug and morally superior to atheists and other non believers.
I say this because the entire foundation for the argument is a logical fallacy, appeal to consequences. Even if it WERE true that without their god, there would be no basis of morality, it wouldn't prove that their god exists. After all, just because it would be bad if something weren't true doesn't mean it's true.
What the argument really attempts to do is make the theist feel like they have a basis for their moral judgments while the non-believer does not. Thus, it supports their already existing preconception that they are morally superior because they are theists.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
