(August 22, 2010 at 5:42 am)fr0d0 Wrote: That makes no sense Ent. To interpret the will of God who is understood to be completely just has to have the aim of ultimate justice. I dealt with it already and you repeated the illogicality.
As a model of perfect morality God as a role model is better than a human as a role model. How a human fairs in achieving the goal isn't pre-disposed by anything, as belief isn't a magical pass but an aim to perfection.
By whose standards is God just? His own? Also, saying that the slaughter of the Midianites was for the greater good is possible, but not at all plausible. I might as well say that Stalin was a bright chap who knew what he was doing, though no-one else was sure, and therefore the Purges were for the greater 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
