RE: Why "mysterious ways" don't matter.
July 8, 2014 at 12:36 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2014 at 12:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 8, 2014 at 12:19 pm)SteveII Wrote: Doesn't the atheist have the same problem of infinite regress when defining good and evil?No, "the atheist" doesn't. "The atheist" can be perfectly satisfied in openly addressing the very terrestrial and very human source of any moral proposition, the merit of said proposition -between the two (participants in the discussion) based upon any agreed upon metrics or system - and the conclusions that may follow.
Don't even get me started on "the greatest being". The "greatest being" is, of course, the one that can do all that godly shit whilst simultaneously -not existing-.
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