(May 24, 2015 at 11:46 am)Randy Carson Wrote: If your son intentionally throws a baseball through a window, it is objectively wrong. But why should he worry when he knows you will forgive him eventually? Mom and Dad aren't going to throw him out of the house for a window.
He should worry because I'm going to teach him that what is important is making restitution and learning from his mistakes, not my forgiveness, which is the opposite of what the bible teaches.
Quote:Some Christians are like that. But not all. Not even the majority. Atheists are like that, too, in the sense that they do things that they know are wrong but then they easily forgive themselves and move on.
The difference being that atheists don't go belive and tell theists that they deserve eternal punishment for being morally inferior.
Quote:That's part of the human condition, I guess...something that no amount of evolution seems to have corrected in us...yet.
And what in your infinite wisdom would make you think evolution should do such a thing?
But be careful there. You don't want to upset the big man in the pointy hat. He says evolution is real.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
