(March 11, 2015 at 7:22 pm)wiploc Wrote: Why doesn't theism open the door to nihilism? Theists like to claim we're supposed to comply with an objective standard that we don't make up ourselves. We don't get to vote on it. We don't have to agree with it. It doesn't have to be good for us. There doesn't have to be anything good about it.
If that isn't nihilism, what is?
And how does having this code dictated by an invisible eccentric make it "objective"?
Perhaps a definition of nihilism is in order: the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.
synonyms: skepticism, negativity, cynicism, pessimism;
IN PHILOSOPHY: extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence.
Theism does in no way lead to nihilism since God would be the source of meaning and of course there would exist realities beyond the physical.
If God does exist and he did declare a "code" it would be objective for our perspective because our individual biases, interpretations, feelings, and imaginings would not affect it.