(June 13, 2014 at 5:01 pm)Eye of God Wrote: I do everything my Lord commands me. If he were to command of me that I kill homosexuals and people who work on the Sabbath, than I would be forced to do so.God wouldn't force you to do anything, would he? That would violate free will, or something.
In any case, that is the entirety of the Christian moral code: to do what god commands, without question. It seems superfluous for a Christian to try and determine why any act is right or wrong. God determines it for them, and tells them what to do and what not to do. They are to obey, that's it. The only "right" is to do what god commands you to do. The only "wrong" is to do what he commands you not to do. Or as Yoda would say, "do or do not, there is no 'why'."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
