(June 16, 2015 at 1:04 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Hi Parkers Tan. I am not sure what you are referring to. What point am I avoiding?
The point that you yourself are a moral relativist by dint of the fact that actions ascribed to your god would in humans be described as evil -- yet you assert that your god is the font of absolute and objective morality. That is a pretty big contradiction there.
(June 16, 2015 at 1:04 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: And I actually did address the "evil my god commits" a couple of times now.
Only by saying that you think the Bible got that wrong. That's simply you discarding the parts you don't like, so that you don't have to think any deeper about the matter. You aren't addressing anything with such an approach; you're papering over a contradiction.
Quote:Hm, someone else on here already confirmed that that is what they meant...
I was responding to your post; I hadn't seen theirs. You'd do well to read those links anyway. You clearly have a mistaken understanding of both ideas.
Quote:I can explain it to you if you want. I do have an answer for it.
I'm all ears ... but if you say that it's because of your faith, that will be circular argumentation and disregarded. "I believe I'm doing right because the god I believe in is right and I'm following his prescripts" is simply moving your bald assertion up a level.
Quote:Fair enough. I guess you are right that I can never claim to know what I would be like if I was something that I am not. But I would like to think I'd believe those things were still immoral.
Perhaps. But the fact that other humans in those societies regard their actions as moral rather undercuts your point that morality is not subjective. It is both subjective (dependent on who is making the judgement) and relative (to the circumstances obtaining at the time of the act).
