RE: Proof of God
April 25, 2015 at 7:45 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2015 at 7:49 am by robvalue.)
What use is a definition of good and evil if some uninvolved third party is deciding which is which?
It may as well be called blue actions and yellow actions. It's arbitrary. To evaluate whether something is actually helpful or harmful requires us to assess it. If you refuse to assess what the judgements given are, you are entirely amoral, not caring what effect your actions have. You have surrendered your humanity.
Of course, this is not actually what happens; almost everyone does filter their religious definition of what is good and evil. At the very least, they refrain from doing things which are "good" because they know they are not really good. They just won't admit to it, so they can convince themselves there is an objective standard. Or rather: an arbitrary standard subjective to God.
It may as well be called blue actions and yellow actions. It's arbitrary. To evaluate whether something is actually helpful or harmful requires us to assess it. If you refuse to assess what the judgements given are, you are entirely amoral, not caring what effect your actions have. You have surrendered your humanity.
Of course, this is not actually what happens; almost everyone does filter their religious definition of what is good and evil. At the very least, they refrain from doing things which are "good" because they know they are not really good. They just won't admit to it, so they can convince themselves there is an objective standard. Or rather: an arbitrary standard subjective to God.
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