RE: Why "mysterious ways" don't matter.
July 17, 2014 at 11:04 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2014 at 11:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If morality is objective, it would persist as such even in the absence of any god (or man, or toaster) - what is objectively wrong, or objectively right, has no need to refer to a god,a man, or a toaster. It stands on it's own. That's being a stickler, sure...but there's probably a better word for the sort of morality you're talking about, that ceases to exist when a god ceases to exist. Subjective would be one....chances are there are other ways to describe it as well.
I think that you might be trying to express the notion that if we weren't handed a set of moral edicts by a being that "transcended" -whatever-...whatever the fuck that means...then we couldn't properly say that we knew that morality was anything but subjective due to our limited POV. The question I have to ask, if that's the case, is how we know that any morality handed down by a god is objective, or subjective? It may be that he's cribbing it - it may be that he's made it up. Either way, ultimately, he becomes a needless redundancy. A middle man, or just some opinionated fairy whose edicts have no more value (and are no less subjective) than one's own.
You seem to be stuck on the idea of a god that transcends our experience - but does he transcend his own experience?
I think that you might be trying to express the notion that if we weren't handed a set of moral edicts by a being that "transcended" -whatever-...whatever the fuck that means...then we couldn't properly say that we knew that morality was anything but subjective due to our limited POV. The question I have to ask, if that's the case, is how we know that any morality handed down by a god is objective, or subjective? It may be that he's cribbing it - it may be that he's made it up. Either way, ultimately, he becomes a needless redundancy. A middle man, or just some opinionated fairy whose edicts have no more value (and are no less subjective) than one's own.
You seem to be stuck on the idea of a god that transcends our experience - but does he transcend his own experience?
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