(September 15, 2010 at 10:05 am)Ace Wrote:(September 15, 2010 at 9:59 am)lrh9 Wrote:
You are wrong.
Please explain.
Thank you for requesting further explanation.
Now I have to formulate that explanation.
Quote:Favorable or not. It's extremely irrational. Intelligance is suppost to encourage reason not the opposite. If god sends people to hell simply because he feels like it, then he is not all loving.
The most intelligent beings are the most rational. If god is irrational, he is unintelligent.
You seem to be confusing rational behavior with rational thought.
Rational behavior is behavior that achieves a specific outcome. If a person wanted to eat a ham sandwich and he acquired a ham sandwich and ate it we would say he acted rationally. However, if he wanted to eat a ham sandwich but he acquired an umbrella and threw it in the ocean we would say he acted irrationally.
If a deity wanted to torture someone then it would indeed be rational behavior if it did so.
It is not related to rational thought at all.
Also, remember that my hypothetical situation was never contingent upon an all loving deity.
Finally, don't make the mistake of thinking love or compassion is dependent on rationality, or that rationality is dependent on love or compassion.
See my signature. Generally personal desire and power decide what happens in any situation. Thinking is merely a sometimes absent intermediary step.
