RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 16, 2015 at 1:03 pm
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2015 at 1:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-and without that reaffirmation would it be any more or less immoral? Your op question is starting to seem very strange. You, apparently, -know- how we determine what is good the same way that we know, and for the same reasons - such as they are. So why did you ask?
You have -yourself- just claimed that gods slaughter of children and calls to genocide -must be- good, whether they are meant literally or allegorically is irelevant. God has never done anything bad, remember? Maybe you should have given it that second thought after all? I'm okay with you going with your gut (so long as you'll own that statement, and not insert a god or it's standards where your gut is doing the work). It's what I do too, of course. My gut tells me that christianity is immoral, regardless of whether or not the stories are true.
You have -yourself- just claimed that gods slaughter of children and calls to genocide -must be- good, whether they are meant literally or allegorically is irelevant. God has never done anything bad, remember? Maybe you should have given it that second thought after all? I'm okay with you going with your gut (so long as you'll own that statement, and not insert a god or it's standards where your gut is doing the work). It's what I do too, of course. My gut tells me that christianity is immoral, regardless of whether or not the stories are true.
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