(January 5, 2015 at 10:42 pm)*steve* Wrote:(January 5, 2015 at 10:15 pm)Cato Wrote: You are conflating existential nihilism and ethical nihilism. The "philosophical ideas" you are using as the basis for your theology require a basic upgrade.
How so?
Ethical nihilism does not necessarily follow from existential nihilism. This is the assumption you are making while holding on to your deontological ethics. Here, try virtue ethics:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/
You can then read up on consequentialism. I recommend doing a bit of research on a conversation that has taken place for over two millenia prior to making assumptions regarding an entire group of people bound by a single shared trait that has nothing to do with the subject at hand. Your assertions on the matter are not only baseless, but are invoked in such a way as to betray your preference for deontology. Attacking an unsupported extreme position, which only you have staked out for yourself to rail against, does not mean your alternative must be true. There are other options as demonstrated.
