RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 16, 2015 at 2:12 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2015 at 2:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 16, 2015 at 2:06 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Well, I don't believe "their god" exists. So naturally, I don't believe in the commands of their god to kill people, etc. And of course, you can apply the same doubts to mine. That's all this is, really. Just having our own beliefs and not believing everything else.-and in a way, that is all that subjective morality is. So, now that you understand what subjective morality is, and how it is -not- what you thought it was (that everything is "right")....can you see why there isn't much trouble for an atheist here?
You clearly -do- apply those same doubts to your own god. When god kills the firstborn you think "no, no, god wouldn't do that, that's allegory" - you are not satisfied with the word of god...you've used your own moral sense.
I do the same thing.
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