(July 4, 2010 at 6:56 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Well the only sensible conclusion is that God is good. You can sensibly not believe at all, but you can't deny logic. Or are you saying you don't agree with other logical conclusions too?
Look up Exodus 21:21. God (presumably) condones the beating of slaves. The 'Good Book' (probably the worst misnomer since the Nazis rebranded Auschwitz as 'Unce Adolf's Happy Fun Camp') is full of such examples. Furthermore, by whose standards is God good? His own? In which case, that just means God says he's good, and that's that. Or is he good by objective standards? In which case, how can God be the source of morals?
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
