(July 10, 2010 at 5:03 pm)Godhead Wrote: If god asked me to sacrifice my entire family to him, god would not be asking me to sacrifice my entire family to him, because it would never ask that.
How do you know it would never ask that? If your morality is based on your god's dictates, then there's no way of discerning which of its commands are moral, and which are not. Your god could command that you kill your family, and that would therefore be considered 'good'.
'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
