(May 19, 2015 at 3:59 pm)Freedom4me Wrote:(May 19, 2015 at 12:36 pm)robvalue Wrote: That does sound like something that would be from Christianity. Sadly, Christianity can focus very heavily on making you hate yourself. It sets standards that are so high you are almost certain to fail, and fail constantly.
It's a dirty, disgusting trick. Morality, any morality that matters, is about the wellbeing of life on this planet. It's not about the feelings of undemonstrated magical beings. I'd rather curse god's name all day long than hurt someone. This is another trick: the conflation of sins with actual immoral, harmful acts. If you stop and examine them in this way, you'll see the two are not related except by coincidence.
If God values his ego higher than the wellbeing of humans and animals, then he is not worthy of praise.
Tell me, robvalue, do you think justice is something worthy of praise? Is love worthy of praise? How about truth? As I see it, God is the personification of these and other intrinsically good things.
Tell it to the Amalekites, especially the children.
Oh wait . . . you can't.
