(October 11, 2014 at 6:40 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Well that's ass about face, and I'll give you points for creative black is white reasoning. Fancy spending some brain cycles considering the argument for and balancing the two?
To be honest, that was been my reasoning even when I was a theist. As a theist, I used to think that god planted all the ridiculous moral rules in religion to see who rises above the crap and shows himself to be truly moral. As a deist, I thought that god made a reality without any inherent justice because he wanted to see who among humans actually came up and implemented the principle as a test of character. As an atheist, I got rid of the "god made" part, but the rest of the principle still stands. My views here are the result of spending plenty of brain cycles on it.
