(February 20, 2015 at 5:43 pm)robvalue Wrote: I have heard people before say exactly that, if God says it's good then it's good. If God says rape that child and smash in that old lady's head with an iron, then it's good and you should do it.This is a really old theist dilemma put forward when the common god was Zeus, and it's been raised on this forum several times and each time it's either avoided like the plague or handled terribly by some of the very same theists that flounder about here today. This is the dilemma that makes it abundantly clear that theists are either incabable of moral thought or, it's never occurred to them that morality might require thought. Faith has always been enough and they've managed to push the barbarism
Because we need moral guidelines, otherwise we'd just go around killing people. 2.5 million was it? Lead by example.
of the bible so far out of their minds that it's only during times like these that they're forced to confront it and ethically reconcile it with all of the contradicting verbal diarrhea they've baselessly asserted which lead to this point. Awfully quiet around here, eh?
